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Daily Chronicle 14 Oct. n.p.: He would not be found trapesing about the constituency [F&H].at trapes, v.
Daily Chronicle 14 Oct. n.p.: He would not be found trapesing about the constituency [F&H]. Daily Chronicle 18 Nov. n.p.: [...] tripper[s]-up [...] a man who trips you up and robs you. If you make a noise they jump on you [F&H].at tripper-up, n.
Daily Chronicle 4 Apr. 7/2: The shop is the name given in the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers to the Establishment which turns out the bulk of the officers of those two distinguished corps [F&H].at Shop, the, n.
Daily Chronicle Sept. n.p.: Of what is generally known as ‘top-shelf’ literature he had a unique collection.at top-shelf, adj.
Daily Chronicle (London) 10 Aug. 4/7: We have heard a lot of blither (and, perhaps, a little sense).at blither, n.
Daily Chronicle 16 Sept. 2/6: The professional boy-farmers [...] are naturally trying to supply what is desired .at boy-farm (n.) under boy, n.2
Daily Chronicle 11 Apr. 9/2: He thought the only way to make them decent members of society was ‘to loosen their hides’ .at loosen someone’s hide (v.) under hide, n.
Daily Chronicle 16 Jan. 5/1: With cayenne and mustard (to give their food the missing ‘kick’ [of alcohol]) [DA].at kick, n.5
Daily Chronicle 17 Sept. 6/6: We had better slide; he looks like a ‘busy’.at busy, n.
Daily Chronicle 25 July 6/5: Another showman described himself as ‘the cheapest man for all kinds of swag watches, all goers’.at swag, n.1
Daily Chronicle 14 Jan. 7: ‘I knew too much about her,’ she said. ‘I had weighed her up.’.at weigh (up), v.
Daily Chronicle 26 July 3/2: Janet’s sheer ‘brickishness’ held her faithful to her organist .at brickish (adj.) under brick, n.
Daily Chronicle 13 Feb. 7/5: Ordeals of mind which formed a brain-storm or mental explosion .at brainstorm (n.) under brain, n.1
Daily Chronicle 30 Nov. 4/4: A country cousin who wishes to see and breathe and mingle in a metropolitan pea-souper .at peasouper, n.
Daily Chronicle 27 July 1/6: Her engagement ... at the Palace is a big ‘scoop’.at scoop, n.
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