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Nimrod’s Hunting Tour choose

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[UK] J.C. Apperley Nimrod’s Hunting Tour (1874) 191: Well, David, we thought you were lost; but we are not going to ‘tip you the double’* [...] *a slang phrase on the road for a passenger slipping away from a coach without paying the coachman.
at tip the double (v.) under double, n.1
[UK] J.C. Apperley Nimrod’s Hunting Tour (1874) 191: No fear on that score, David.
at no fear!, excl.
[UK] J.C. Apperley Nimrod’s Hunting Tour (1874) 206: Being pumped out by the pace, the young one got a floorer.
at floorer, n.
[UK] J.C. Apperley Nimrod’s Hunting Tour 215: Mr. Charles Boultbee, the best screw driver in England. (Note) This is somewhat technical and wants an explanation. A lame or very bad horse is called a screw [F&H].
at screw, n.1
[UK] J.C. Apperley Nimrod’s Hunting Tour (1874) 151: They [horse] are [...] picked out of these and other sale-stables, if likely to ‘do the trick’.
at do the trick (v.) under trick, n.1
[UK] J.C. Apperley Nimrod’s Hunting Tour (1874) 149: This mare was sound when I turned her out, but she came up a whistler.
at whistler, n.1
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