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Daily Tel. Aug. (Amer. Corresp.) n.p.: Another favourite punishment [...] was that of ‘bricking’, which was done by bringing the knees close up to the chin and lashing the arms tightly to the knee .at brick, n.
Daily Tel. Aug. (Amer. Corresp.) n.p.: Another favourite punishment [...] was that of ‘bricking’, which was done by bringing the knees close up to the chin and lashing the arms tightly to the knee .![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom")
Daily Tel. 19 Oct. n.p.: The country is so wild and unexplored, that the lag who has traversed it, or could traverse it, might re-enter society as a hero if he would impart his adventures [F&H].at lag, n.2
in Daily Tel. 6 Apr. n.p.: Our ladies faithfully promised to ‘draw it as mild’ as possible; but when they made their appearance in most splendid array, I felt rather uncertain as to what the consequences might have been if they had drawn it strong.at draw it strong (v.) under strong, adv.
Daily Tel. 26 July n.p.: The bourgeois warriors [...] were smoking or taking a suck at the monkey, otherwise the whisky flask [F&H].at suck the monkey (v.) under suck, v.1
Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 5/3: He was in good health... looked almost ‘beastly well,’ as I once heard it described [F&H].at beastly, adv.
Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 5/3: Point d’argent, point de Suisse—a saying applicable alike to every contingent, from the Franco-Belgian down to the ‘greenfinches’ of Old Ireland .at no cash, no Swiss, phr.
Daily Tel. 7 Sept. (?) n.p.: It is an ominous fact that London milkmen are known in the vocabulary of slang as chalkers [F&H].at chalker, n.2
Daily Tel. 4 Dec. 5/6: A few of the codfish, shoddy, and petroleum aristocracy.at codfish, n.
Daily Tel. 17 Nov. 5/2: A slant-eyed, saffron-coloured race [OED].at slant-eyed, adj.
Phrase and Fable quoted from Daily Tel. 394: Mr. Gathorne Hardy is to look after the gamps and Harrises of the Strand .at gamp, n.
Daily Tel. 6 Sept. n.p.: ‘Season at Baden.’ [...] do they ‘pitch’ on the petticoats, and give three cheers and have a beer when they finish the work by chucking up the dress? [F&H].at chuck up, v.2
Dly Teleg. 2 June 2/2: Under the velveteen jacket [...] beneath the whitest waistcoat of the oldest ‘buck’ [...] dating back to the days of the Regency.at buck, n.1
Dly Teleg. 2 June 2/2: The travellers were all chatty, many of them chaffy.at chaffy, adj.
Dly Teleg. 2 June 2/3: A collision [...] between a costermonger’s shallow and a baronet’s barouche.at shallow, n.
Daily Tel. 15 May ‘Critique on Mr. H.J. Byron’s Play of An English Gentleman’ n.p.: Rachel does not like Brandon’s carneying ways [F&H].at carney, v.
Daily Tel. 27 Jan. [F&H].at chapel of little ease (n.) under chapel, n.
Daily Tel. 8 Apr. n.p.: C. and W. Wrestling Society. The various competitors struggled hard and put on all they know in ‘hipes,’ ‘hanks,’ ‘clicks,’ ‘strokes,’ and ‘buttockings’ [F&H].at click, n.1
Daily Tel. 24 Oct. n.p.: [...] Is the skilly we wonder most ‘beutiful’ at Stepney, or are the clods and stickings unusually free from bone [F&H].at clods and stickings (n.) under clod, n.1
Daily Tel. 23 March, n.p.: ‘Lord Derby on Pauperism.’ [...] instead of the harmony that should exist [...] you have [...] a Dutch concert, or in other words, every man playing his own tune on his own instrument [F&H].at Dutch concert (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
Daily Tel. 4 Dec. n.p.: This was the secret business, the tremendous conspiracy, to compass which it was deemed necessary to act with infinitely more caution than the friends of Bill Sikes feel called to exercise when they distribute tickets for a friendly lead for the benefit of Bill, who is just out of his trouble [F&H].at friendly lead, n.
Daily Tel. 7 Mar. n.p.: ‘Winner of the Waterloo Cup’ [...] on a suggestion to give him a jolly, [...] they cheered the hero loud and long [F&H].at jolly, n.1
Daily Tel. 6 Oct. n.p.: ‘Official Corruption in America.’ Tax-gatherers, brokers, shavers, &c.,... pets of the Treasury [F&H].at shaver, n.2
Daily Tel. 30 Nov. n.p.: [...] the old Dutch auction, by which an article was put up at a high price, and if nobody accepted the offer, then reduced to a lower, the sum first required being gradually reduced until a fair value was attained [F&H].at Dutch auction (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
Daily Tel. 30 Sept. n.p.: Still stoutly asserted by some sceptical Down-Easter to have been an itinerant dealer in hardware and kitchen fixings from Salem, Mass [F&H].at fixings, n.1
Daily Tel. 4 July n.p.: Boston claims to be the HUB of the universe; but New York grandiloquently asserts itself to be the universal wheel itself [F&H].at Hub, the, n.
Daily Tel. 5 Jan. ‘The Clerical Scandal.’ n.p.: The vicar [...] appeared to be muddled [F&H].at muddled, adj.
Daily Tel. 11 Dec. n.p.: The agonisers of the pianoforte [OED].at agoniser, n.
Daily Tel. 26 Dec. n.p.: Men may come and men may go; the Grant ‘Boom’ may be succeeded by the Sherman ‘Boom;’ but Pie goes on for ever [DA].at pie, n.
Daily Tel. 11 Mar. n.p.: going off at a lively bat of 34... the boat travelled at a good pace [F&H].at bat, n.3
Daily Tel. 26 Nov. n.p.: The Doctor had killed twenty out of twenty-five, while his opponent had grassed seventeen of the same number [F&H].at grass, v.1
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