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The Entail, or, The Lairds of Grippy choose

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[Scot] J. Galt Entail I 53: ‘Weel, weel,’ said the Laird, ‘dinna let us argol-bargol about it.’.
at argle-bargle, v.
[Scot] J. Galt Entail III 84: He has scartit and dinit my gude mahogany table past a’ the power o’ bees-wax and elbow grease to smooth.
at elbow grease, n.
[Scot] J. Galt Entail III 128: It’s no for a courtesy o’ causey clash that he’s birling his mouldy pennies in sic firlots.
at mouldy, adj.
[Scot] J. Galt Entail I 9: I would be nane surprised the morn to hear that the Nebuchadnezzar was a’ gane to pigs and whistles, and driven out wi’ the divors bill to the barren pastures of bankruptcy.
at go to pigs and whistles (v.) under pig, n.
[Scot] J. Galt Entail III 278: The necessity she was often under of making [...] her servants ‘walk the carpet;’ or, in other words, submit to receive those kind of benedictions to which servants are [...] so often and so justly entitled.
at walk the carpet (v.) under walk, v.
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