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Literary Curiosities 28: Agony-Column. The name familiarly given to the second column of the first page of the London Times.at agony column (n.) under agony, n.
Literary Curiosities 28: Agony-Column. The name familiarly given to the second column of the first page of the London Times. in Literary Curiosities 352: Eye. All my eye. This slang term for fudge, nonsense, with its pendant, ‘All my eye and Betty Martin’.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
in Literary Curiosities 352: Eye. All my eye. This slang term for fudge, nonsense.at all my eye, phr.
Literary Curiosities 140: Cat, As sick as a, [...] It seems that the original ran: As sick as cats With eating rats.at …a cat (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
Literary Curiosities 1039: Though Illinois does not specially abound in ‘suckers,’ and ‘badgers’ are rather scarce in Winconsin, the two commonwealths are still respectively known as ‘the Sucker State’ and ‘the Badger State’.at badger, n.1
in Literary Curiosities 141: Great applause greeted the suggestion, until an old mouse put the pertinent question, ‘Who will bell the cat?’.at bell the cat, v.
in Literary Curiosities.at copperhead, n.
Literary Curiosities 403: Gallagher. Let her go, Gallagher! a humorous Americanism, meaning ‘All right! Go ahead!’.at let her go (Gallagher)!, excl.
Literary Curiosities 190: Coon, Go the whole, an American equivalent for ‘go the whole hog’.at go the whole coon (v.) under go the whole..., v.
Literary Curiosities 497: Hugins and Muggins, the embodiment of vulgar pretension [...] derived from ‘Hogen and Mogen’.at hogan-mogan, adj.
Literary Curiosities 450: In political parlance, especially during the second half of the decade 1870–1880, [...] ‘soft money’ [...] was understood [to mean] an irredeemable paper currency such as was advocated by the Greenbackers.at soft money, n.
Literary Curiosities 854: The lair of a panel-thief is called indiscriminately a panel-house, panel-crib, or panel-den .at panel thief (n.) under panel, n.1
Literary Curiosities 854: The lair of a panel-thief is called indiscriminately a panel-house, panel-crib, or panel-den .at panel crib (n.) under panel, n.1
Literary Curiosities 1039: Though Illinois does not specially abound in ‘suckers,’ and ‘badgers’ are rather scarce in Wisconsin, the two commonwealths are still respectively known as ‘the Sucker State’ and ‘the Badger State’.at sucker, n.2
Literary Curiosities 1039: Tiger, To buck the, in American slang, to gamble, and especially in a gambling-hell.at buck the tiger (v.) under tiger, n.
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