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Life and Work among Navvies 41: Now then, my china-plate, out with your cherry-ripe, off with your steam-packet, and set your bark and growl agoin.at bark and growl, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 41: Now then, my china-plate, out with your cherry-ripe, off with your steam-packet, and set your bark and growl agoin. Life and Work among Navvies 40: If he were at all inclined to be a dandy, he would express his determination [...] ‘to blackbird and thrush round his daisy roots’.at blackbird and thrush, v.
Life and Work among Navvies 43: Nobby, I’m going to do a ‘laugh and joke’.at laugh and joke, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 42: When applied to by the ‘ganger,’ he would announce his willingness to ‘make a puff and dart’ (start) in the morning.at puff and dart, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 42: I shall go and get my sugar and honey and be off to another Solomon.at sugar and honey, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 40: Oh! I’m goin’ to get my ‘kit’ (bundle), and be off on the frog and toad.at frog (and toad), n.
Life and Work among The Navvies 40: Had our friend wished for something more potent than the pig’s ear aforesaid, he would have substituted the phrase [...] ‘Tommy get out, and let your father in’, meaning thereby gin.at Tommy get out, and let your father in, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 35: The phrase by which you generally give assent to a proposition [...] ‘Right you are!’.at right you are!, excl.
Life and Work among Navvies 40: Keep your mince pies on the Billy Gorman.at billy gorman, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 44: The clergy are playfully spoken of as ‘Billycock Gang’.at billycock, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 42: A common custom on the line, if a man wishes to know the time, is to inquire, ‘What’s the bird lime?’.at birdlime, n.2
Life and Work among Navvies 43: When a man is ready to retire to rest, he will inform his mates, ‘That he’s done his lot for the day, and is goin’ to lay his pen’oth o’ bread (head) on the weeping-willow (pillow), and do a little bo-peep (sleep)’.at bo-peep, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 43: When a man is ready to retire to rest, he will inform his mates, ‘That he’s done his lot for the day, and is goin’ to lay his pen’oth o’ bread (head) on the weeping-willow (pillow), and do a little bo-peep (sleep)’.at penn’orth of bread, n.
Life and Work among The Navvies 40: Had our friend wished for something more potent than the pig’s ear aforesaid, he would have substituted the phrase ‘Bryan o’ lin’.at Brian O’Linn, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 36: Why, poor ‘Old Bricky-Ned’ as had the misfortune to break his leg.at brickie, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 41: If he runs short of bricks, he cries out to his ‘cad’ (assistant) for ‘Dublin tricks’.at cad, n.1
Life and Work among Navvies 43: ‘Charley Randy’ for brandy, ‘Charley Frisky’ for whisky.at charley frisky, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 43: ‘Charley Randy’ for brandy, ‘Charley Frisky’ for whisky.at charley randy, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 43: ‘Charley Prescott’ is simply another name for a waistcoat.at charlie prescott, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 41: Now then, my china-plate, out with your cherry-ripe, off with your steam-packet, and set your bark and growl agoin’.at cherry-ripe, n.3
Life and Work among Navvies 41: Now then, my china-plate, out with your cherry-ripe, off with your steam-packet, and set your bark and growl agoin.at china (plate), n.
Life and Work among Navvies 43: Look out, here comes a heap of coke.at heap of coke, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 49: A man with red hair would be termed a ‘Copper-knob’.at copper nob (n.) under copper, adj.
Life and Work among Navvies 36: You see that light in ‘Darkey’s’ hut?at darkey, n.
Life and Work among The Navvies in DSUE (1984).at fisherman’s (daughter), n.
Life and Work among Navvies 41: If he runs short of bricks, he cries out to his ‘cad’ (assistant) for ‘Dublin tricks’.at Dublin trick, n.
Life and Work among Navvies 41: When a man gets tired of walking a long distance to his work [...] if he wishes to express himself in the approved slang phraseology, he will do it thus: – ‘I can’t stand this Duke of York to my Russian-Turk’.at Duke of York, n.
Life and Work among The Navvies 40: Now, Jack, I’m goin’ to get a tiddley wink of pig’s ear.at pig’s (ear), n.
Life and Work among Navvies 41: The night before [...] he ‘had been and got the elephant’s trunk’.at elephant’s (trunk), adj.
Life and Work among The Navvies 35: If you could make up your mind to ‘stick to a job’ a little bit longer at a time, it might be better for you, and the ‘gaffer’ too.at gaffer, n.2
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