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In and About Drury Lane choose

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[UK] Dr Doran In and About Drury Lane II 13: His obedience to her was that of Jerry Sneak. She would cry out in a room full of people, Johnny, do this; Johnny do that.
at jerry sneak, n.1
[UK] Dr Doran In and About Drury Lane II 13: In behalf of some of the fine ladies of the time, government officials cheated their own revenue department without scruple. Jackson was, one day in 1810, amused to find the ‘subs’ at the Foreign Office very anxious, at Lord Wellesley’s suggestion, to devise a means of getting a box of shoes which had been sent from Spain, for Lady Holland, but which had been seized by the Custom House officers.
at sub, n.1
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