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Bird o’ Freedom 7th Mar. in (1909) 141/2: Phil Benjamin was taking his daily constitutional, which consisted in what is called ‘a gin crawl’ – in this instance between Drury Lane and Covent Garden.at gin crawl (n.) under gin, n.4
Bird o’ Freedom 7th Mar. in (1909) 141/2: Phil Benjamin was taking his daily constitutional, which consisted in what is called ‘a gin crawl’ – in this instance between Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Bird o’ Freedom 7th Mar. in (1909) 221/2: The shiftmonger rolled into the Roman’s (Romano’s – an Italian restaurant in the Strand) blind, speechless, paralytic. Staggering up to the well-known slate, he wrote thereon, in trembling characters, ‘Coffee and soda for one. Wake me in time to brass for Baiet Gurlesque’.at shift-monger, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 7 Aug. 3: But Samson’s crowning feat of all was to break with his fist two steel chains, suspended from a couple of posts. This fairly brought down the house [F&H].at bring the house down (v.) under bring, v.
Bird o’ Freedom 7 Aug. 3: For five minutes that crock went about twice as fast as it had ever done.at crock, n.2
Bird o’Freedom 7 Aug., 3: We submitted, and with her help were soon surrounded with a formidable array of dead ’uns.at dead ’un, n.2
Bird o’Freedom 7 Aug. 3: An absinthe tumbler which caught him a nasty crack across the dial finally convinced him that discretion was the better part of valour.at dial, n.
Bird o’ Freedom in Sl., Jargon and Cant I 509/1: Young Savile Civility had bought the thing the day before, a beastly toy, made to look like a penny roll, with a mouse on a wire spring inside. The laugh was all on his side till he felt his daddy’s old slipper beating on his jubilee with the rhythmic precision of the waves upon the wild sea-shore.at jubilee, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 5: Having just recovered from a veritable good old attack of influenza — no second quality, mind you, but a regular A-1, registered at Lloyd’s, sort.at A-1, adj.
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 7/4: ‘Lord a mussy,’ said the old woman, ‘you don’t say so, do’ee?’.at lor-a-massy/-mussy!, excl.
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 1/4: I’m sick of hearing about this, that, and the other man’s or woman’s festive dinner. It may go to the dickens for me.at this, that and the other, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 1/1: ‘And what did you think of it in London?’ ‘Begorrah!’ came the reply, Pat—‘I thought the orchestra was bally wake!’.at balahack, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 15 Jan. 1/3: Course I’m drunk [...] demned drunk; but I’ll get—get over it. But your a bally hog, and you’ll never get over it.at bally, adj.
Bird o’ Freedom 15 Jan. 1/4: The other day the Jerker waltzed bang into the arms of his tame tailer.at bang, adv.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 1: You billy-be-blowed hunk of soap fat!at billy-be-damned, adj.
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 1/1: ‘And what did you think of it in London?’ ‘Begorrah!’ came the reply, Pat—‘I thought the orchestra was bally wake!’.at begorra!, excl.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 1: On the case of the New Waterbury, whereon he blued a slice of last week’s nap earnings.at blew, v.2
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 3/2: Who was the nincompoop with her in the morning? A mere blind. [...] This was a wrong ’un [...] and she daren’t own she was going to meet him. So she gave the other ‘smudge’ a dollar to fetch her.at blind, n.1
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 3/2: To do him justice, he was about as blind as they make ’em. He had reached that state in which the only way to keep yourself awake is to shout for fresh drinks.at blind, adj.1
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 1/2: How much more his friends thought of him when they sat at that feast than if they had been sent home from the bone-orchard with empty stomachs.at bone orchard (n.) under bone, n.1
Bird o’ Freedom 8 Jan. 5/3: The landlady would have bounced her long ago, if her brother didn’t happen to own the house.at bounce, v.1
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 2/3: She alludes to the male members of the company as ‘the boys’.at boys, the, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 3: Hold on a minute, brother [...] you find fault with that parable, do you?at brother, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 2: Each death-drawn trace on the bruiser’s face / Jack, sighing, looked upon.at bruiser, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 3: Now look here, cap’n, do you pick up a man on the road and expect him to have a wedding garment?at captain, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 3/2: ‘Ma’ thought him a catch.at catch, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 1: ‘Like their cheek,’ sniffed Mrs. Jerker, who prides herself on her chaste English.at cheek, n.2
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 3/3: [He] is trilling it here to a very pretty tune of chi-ikes, and encores, and pats on his ickle back.at chi-ike, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 1/4: Five bob [...] and dirt cheap, my chicken.at chicken, n.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 2: So you were chucked from the Cheese last night [...] weren’t you mad?at chuck, v.2
Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 1/2: An American doctor, who has recently ‘climbed the greasy,’ left five hundred dollars to be devoted to oysters and champagne, to be consumed after his cremation.at climb the greasy pole (v.) under climb, v.
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