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[UK] ‘Nothing like Grog’ India-Rubber Face Song Book 2: And, blow me, there’s no thing like grog.
at blow!, excl.1
[UK] ‘Davy Jones’s Locker’ India-Rubber Face Song Book 2: He address’d each mate: What’s life, d’ye see, when our liberty’s gone, / Much nobler it were for to die, / So now for old Davy—then plunged in the main.
at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[UK] ‘Only a Shilling’ India-Rubber Face Song Book 4: I’m fly, yes, up to ev’ry trick.
at fly, adj.
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