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‘Hold Your Jaw’ in One Thousand Eight Hundred 20: A Cit much distress’d / A statesman address’d, / Respecting the silencing law, / The statesman reply’d [...] The meaning is — hold your Jaw.at hold one’s jaw (v.) under jaw, n.
‘Hold Your Jaw’ in One Thousand Eight Hundred 20: A Cit much distress’d / A statesman address’d, / Respecting the silencing law, / The statesman reply’d [...] The meaning is — hold your Jaw. ‘Loaves & the Fishes’ One Thousand Eight Hundred 43: And such is the ease with the kites of the law, / When they get a poor client once into their claw.at kite, n.
‘Every Man His Mode’ One Thousand Eight Hundred 29: The Quaker’s a very queer kind of a quiz, / His back so erect, and so prim in his phiz.at phiz, n.1
‘Every Man His Mode’ One Thousand Eight Hundred 29: Sure every man in his way is a prig, / From the cut of his coat, or the tie of his wig.at prig, n.1
‘Every Man His Mode’ in One Thousand Eight Hundred 29: The Player’s a prigster of every kind, [...] Sometimes like a beggar, sometimes like a king, / A tragical, comical, whimsical thing.at prigster, n.
‘Every Man His Mode’ in One Thousand Eight Hundred 29: The Coachman, tho’ plain, is an absolute fop, / With [...] his broad silver buttons, and tripple-eap’d coat, / And all the slang speeches of Newgate by rote.at slang, adj.
‘The Loaves and the Fishes’ in One Thousand Eight Hundred 43: Should a Judge slip his wind, the first legal wish is, / That they may be bench’d near the Loaves and the Fishes.at slip one’s wind (v.) under slip, v.2
‘A Catch’ in One Thousand Eight Hundred 34: Say, is it not the fashion [...] To keep a wench and starve a wife.at wench, n.
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