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Life in Paris 102: I excused you yesterday on account of the ladies, – that plea won’t hold any longer. Come, no sham Abrahams among old acquaintance.at sham abram, v.
Life in Paris 102: I excused you yesterday on account of the ladies, – that plea won’t hold any longer. Come, no sham Abrahams among old acquaintance. Life in Paris 218: Am I obliged to turn puppy [...] to be fit to sit or dance with a company of apes and demireps?at ape, n.
Life in Paris 425: I came back directly to the place where I’d left Liddy, and, as sure as mutton’s mutton, the bird was flown.at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
Life in Paris 275: Do you like to sit alone while my master and your mistress are playing at romps up stairs?at play (at)..., v.
Life in Paris 272: Sam [...] seeing the Captain was disposed to take no denial from Clarinde, lodged the contents of his bow-wow in the shoulder of the Captain, who stumbled and fell to the ground.at bow-wow, n.
Life in Paris 425: They told me that a young woman had boxed her mumps* (*walked off) almost the instant I left her.at box one’s mumps (v.) under box, v.2
Life in Paris 424: I thought, mayhap, she’d given me the go-by, and come home of herself, a purpose to spite me.at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
Life in Paris 80: ‘Come fill your glasses higher and higher,’ / Cries Button, the tailor [...] ‘I thank you, friend Button, you’re vastly kind; / And may you have cabbage in plenty.’.at cabbage, n.1
Life in Paris 217: A carpet knight ‘Who capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber’.at carpet knight, n.
Life in Paris 8: All the women are carrotty and peevish.at carrotty, adj.
Life in Paris 98: Sir Humphrey’s charmer saw how the storm raged, and [...] made her retreat.at charmer, n.
Life in Paris 350: It beat the one in Kew-Gardens, where they used to go in a chay of a Sunday-time.at chay, n.
Life in Paris 475: Lady Halibut [...] fortified herself with a double dose of cherry-bounce.at cherry-bounce (n.) under cherry, n.1
Life in Paris 75: There’s Wildfire Dick and Captain Flash [...] And Miss and Ma’am, / Mi Lor G-d D-mn.at God-damn!, excl.
Life in Paris 424: You couldn’t be such a d----d fool as to leave Liddy to walk in Paris by herself?at damned, adj.
Life in Paris 44: There are sharps in France [...] who are actively alive to the charms of the danglers and to all kinds of portable swag.at dangler, n.
Life in Paris 279: What a pity it would be if the dollars, after all, should go to Davy Jones’s locker!at go to Davy Jones’s locker (v.) under Davy Jones’s locker, n.
Life in Paris 200: So here’s at darkening his daylights for the advantage of his mummer.at darken someone’s daylights (v.) under daylights, n.
Life in Paris 357: What Mr. Sovong said was all sheer gammon to try and do her into giving a large sum for some worthless bauble.at do, v.1
Life in Paris 335: Here our sparks soon provided themselves with doxies.at doxy, n.
Life in Paris 226: She was indeed a figure worthy of our hero’s attention, and most unfit to have been matched with such a fribble.at fribble, n.
Life in Paris 357: What Mr. Sovong said was all sheer gammon to try and do her into giving a large sum for some worthless bauble.at gammon, n.2
Life in Paris 45: Who could have imagined that you stood in need of being put upon your guard against hawks and sharpers?at hawk, n.1
Life in Paris 2: The elderly gentleman winces at the importunities of Moses, who has a strong Israelitish itch to finger his bank-notes.at ikey-mo, n.
Life in Paris 200: I’ll let him see how an Englishman can rattle his ivory-box.at ivory-box (n.) under ivory, n.
Life in Paris 335: How long the gemmen kept it up, in this both low and lofty ken, the females of which were up to trap, is not in our record.at ken, n.1
Life in Paris 78: I means the whole kit of them.at whole kit, n.
Life in Paris 23: The happy author of this metamorphosis was despatched with his pockets weightier and his load considerably lighter than when he arrived.at load, n.
Life in Paris 337: Why does thou louse-trap elevate it’s locks, / Unkempt and unadorn’d.at louse trap (n.) under louse, n.
Life in Paris 240: The lubberly sharper’s jib.at lubberly, adj.
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