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[UK] W. Sickert Speaker 3 Apr. 373: The standard of the election errs in being too low [...] they lightly take Tom, Dick and Harry for better or for worse, to the lasting detriment of what, after all, still ranks as a respectable house.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[UK] W. Sickert Speaker 20 Mar. 321: M. Helleu has ‘fairly knocked’ our critics. His plates [...] are larger than any of ours, and there is less in them.
at knock, v.
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