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‘Jack the Giant Queller’ choose

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[UK] Jack the Giant Queller 18: He did not e’en attend to half his duties, / And when he did, indeed was all my eye.
at all my eye, phr.
[UK] Jack the Giant Queller 12: We may expect one moment to be hung, / Sent to the Bay, or Davy Jones’s locker.
at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[UK] Jack the Giant Queller 15: Or if I must be hung, oh, let me be, / Exalted by Jack Ketch upon a tree.
at Jack Ketch, n.
[UK] Jack the Giant Queller 24: They have a rod in pickle for correction.
at rod in piss (n.) under rod, n.
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