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[UK] R. Cumberland Wheel of Fortune IV ii: A gentleman, who trusts to servants in his absence, is sure to be cut up.
at cut up, v.2
[UK] R. Cumberland Wheel of Fortune IV ii: Poor man! what between cutting up and cutting out, how you will be mangled!
at cut out, v.2
[UK] R. Cumberland Wheel of Fortune IV ii: I’ll marry that money-bag, and enrich you with the pillage of it.
at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.
[UK] R. Cumberland Wheel of Fortune II i: Here every ragged-headed fellow, with a mahogany face, because he can slip into an eel-skin, and I cannot, slips into favour before me.
at ragged, adj.
[UK] J.T. Fisher Wheel of Fortune 135: Invariably he’d catch heat for being out on a race night.
at catch heat (v.) under heat, n.
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