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Round London 148: As far as fortune is concerned I’ll bet my bottom dollar there ain’t one’ll come within a hundred miles of her.at bet one’s bottom dollar (v.) under bet, v.
Round London 148: As far as fortune is concerned I’ll bet my bottom dollar there ain’t one’ll come within a hundred miles of her. Round London 121: Lord Salisbury and the big-wigs of the Conservative party are bound to be civil.at bigwig, n.
Round London 23: The ‘bricky’ from Edgware or Tottenham, with his Sunday shaved chin and his best bright moleskins.at brickie, n.
Round London 62: All a man has to do is to go to the police station, pay five shillings, give his name, and ask for a hawker’s ‘brief’.at brief, n.1
Round London 96: What robberies are you going to buff me for?at buff, v.1
Round London 39: The gathering included many disciples of Bung, as was proved by red and pimply noses, beery breath, and sour skins.at bung, n.2
Round London 86: There are howls of ‘Bloomin’ butter-fingers!’ followed by derisive laughter.at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
Round London 107: I used to go to Margate, but Ramsgate takes the cake.at take the cake, v.
Round London 159: Yes; Miss Scarborough had indeed ‘caught on’.at catch on, v.
Round London 158: It is the favourite haunt of the ‘Johnnies’ and ‘dear chappies’ – those singular specimens of the rising generation of England.at chappie, n.
Round London 75: Boarding-house touts, crimps, outfitters, runners, and other rapacious beasts of prey.at crimp, n.2
Round London 21: Those croakers who say you cannot grow flowers in towns can never have seen Hyde Park in June.at croaker, n.1
Round London 235: Robert S-- is a d--n fraud.at damn, adj.
Round London 26: How the -- did you get in that state?at how the devil...?, phr.
Round London 39: The East End brewers and publicans are thoroughly appreciated by the ‘dossers’.at dosser, n.
Round London 38: I was completely ignorant of the sort of life that was led in ‘kips’ or ‘doss-houses’.at dosshouse, n.
Round London 100: The ‘fences,’ who were principally Jews, did an enormous trade.at fence, n.1
Round London 9: The ‘penny gaff’ established there was the first to be informed against by the police.at penny gaff (n.) under gaff, n.1
Round London 107: The old gal thinks with me that you’re all right and on the square.at old gal, n.
Round London 236: After Newmarket comes Goodwood, and then Cowes, which is the last ‘go’ of the year.at go, n.1
Round London 41: ‘A griddler?’ said the sergeant. ‘Don’t you know that, sir? Why, he’s a chanter – one of them as gets a living by singing in the streets. They never have any fixed home. They go about all day and sleep together in gangs.’.at griddler, n.
Round London 24: There’s tuppence a week for his grub for ten weeks.at grub, n.2
Round London 151: There was the usual gush in the society papers about the devotion of the intending bridegroom.at gush, n.2
Round London 120: Hang it all, I think I ought to know a gentleman when I see one.at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
Round London 44: Give him a good hiding.at hiding, n.
Round London 108: Young Ikey was dividing his attention between Ally Sloper, the Hokey Pokey man, and a band of Ethiopean serenaders.at hokey-pokey man (n.) under hokey-pokey, n.3
Round London 15: The match girls who, to use a vulgar expression, are on their own hook – that is to say, have detached themselves from their families.at on one’s own hook under hook, n.1
Round London 131: I [...] was whisked off, in company with the myrmidons of the law, to Slowman’s, the sponging-house in Cursitor Street.at sponging-house, n.
Round London 216: Telling the Jehu to drive to the Rag, jumped into the cab and was driven off.at jehu, n.
Round London 38: I was completely ignorant of the sort of life that was led in ‘kips’ or ‘doss-houses’.at kip, n.1
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