Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

English Illustrated Magazine choose

Quotation Text

[UK] Eng. Illus. Mag. Apr. 509: No rowdy ding, but a few quiet and well-known bookies, who were ready enough to lay the odds to a modest fiver [F&H].
at ding, n.2
[UK] Eng. Illus. Mag. April 509: The second rider... got his gallant quad over, and... went round the course alone [F&H].
at quad, n.
[UK] Eng. Illus. Mag. 20 492/2: Snakes alive! there were diamonds enough blinking at me to last ten men till kingdom come.
at snakes (alive)!, excl.
no more results