Green’s Dictionary of Slang
W. Collins Moonstone (1966) 345: I took Mrs Betteridge – affectionately, you understand – up in my arms, and carried her, holus-bolus, into the best parlour.at holus-bolus, adv.
W. Collins Moonstone (1966) 369: How I spent the night, after shamming ill again at tea-time, and having been sent up to bed, there is no need to tell you.at sham, v.1
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