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Unsentimental Journeys 56: Those celebrated merchant ‘clippers’ — A 1, and copper-hearted.at A-1, adj.
Unsentimental Journeys 56: Those celebrated merchant ‘clippers’ — A 1, and copper-hearted. Unsentimental Journeys 191: The brushers and bruisers, and rag and tag generally, aiming aimlesly at that ‘bob’ which is always to be picked up here.at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 215: Not downcast [...] as you might have expected, but bold as brass.at bold as brass (adj.) under bold as..., adj.
Unsentimental Journeys 179: He has got the ‘tip’ for the small charge of a guinea, from that wideawake tipster, ‘Weazle, of the Sporting Life.’.at wide-awake, adj.
Unsentimental Journeys 232: By half-past eight he had sold his twenty-five ‘dailys,’ and had bagged ninepence clear.at bag, v.
Unsentimental Journeys 230: I wish I had your billet, young ’un.at billet, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 139: If they are smokers, they’ll find a supply of the best birdseye and some straw pipes.at birdseye, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 204: I knowed what was coming since that heavenly ganger, bless his precious eyes, jacketed me on Thursday.at bless, v.1
Unsentimental Journeys 123: The ‘blessing’ is a few cresses thrown in over and above the measured quantity, and evidently a ‘hand’ bargain was never completed without it.at blessing, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 189: The various bands of Ethiopian ‘serenaders,’ many of whom, divested of their business as wool and ‘long-tail blues,’ mixed with the crowd.at long-tail blue, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 151: Mud-larks are of two kinds; the coal-finder and the bone-grubber.at bone-grubber (n.) under bone, n.1
Unsentimental Journeys 94: Calf-lovers may look on all hours of the day as fit for the exchange of epistolary bleatings, and, possibly, it is easy to ‘boo’ passionately all over four sides of notepaper immediately after breakfast.at boo, v.
Unsentimental Journeys 194: This cabbage-bawling, carpet-beating, gravel-carting, coal-selling, goods-removing, servants’-box-conveying, ‘Jolly Sandboy’-boosing person.at booze, v.
Unsentimental Journeys 207: ‘Haloo, here’s Dick! Found your dawg, Dick?’ ‘Bust him, no!’.at bust, v.1
Unsentimental Journeys 180: He doesn’t care twopence whether the Derby laurels are carried off by Cambuscan or the rankest outsider.at not care twopence, v.
Unsentimental Journeys 74: The smug-faced ‘tally’ rascal, and his brother, the director of the cent.-per-cent. Loan Office.at cent per cent, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 50: The host of ‘knockers-out’ and ‘chaunters’ and ‘copers,’ hearing of the scheme, set it down as the old dodge with a new cloak.at chanter, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 174: For there’s nought can cheer the heart that’s low / Like a steaming cup of the good congou.at congo, n.1
Unsentimental Journeys 141: These precious boots [...] I can’t get ’em on. I’ve been trying this half hour. Dash the boots!at dash, v.1
Unsentimental Journeys 101: Certain folks whose only aim was, like Jeremy Diddler, to hoodwink the worshippers and fleece them of their money.at diddler, n.2
Unsentimental Journeys 8: The Hebrew who, having nicely arranged his brummagem jewellery, had nothing else (but customers) to do.at do, v.1
Unsentimental Journeys 97: You may make out a draggle-tail, drunken drab, lying wait of evenings within a score yards of the threshold of your innocent house. [Ibid.] 128: Slovenly-bosomed, draggle-tailed women of sixteen.at draggle-tailed, adj.
Unsentimental Journeys 204: ‘Where shall we go?’ ‘Oh! to the old drum, I suppose.’.at drum, n.3
Unsentimental Journeys 152: When you come to [...] put on your own ragged duds before you come out, it’s very cold and wretched, very.at duds, n.1
Unsentimental Journeys 137: Perhaps it is only people that are more F. than R. who have the privilege of seeing such things, and of writing about them after they have seen ’em. If so the Christmas-story writer is not so blameable a person as if he were more R. than F.at more R than F, phr.
Unsentimental Journeys 229: What call had he to push and shove people about [...] because he wore a four-and-nine, and had a pencil stuck behind his ear.at four and nine (penny) (n.) under four, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 100: The low-minded costermonger [...] who laughs to scorn galligaskins and knickerbockers.at galligaskins, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 4: Having had in my time two grinders extracted whose decay in no way shook their attachment to me.at grinder, n.1
Unsentimental Journeys 135: It is a sound, homely, sagacious organ, and though, at present, it has not scented out the way to Tom Tiddler’s ground, it has warned me of several paths promising enough to look at.at Tom Tiddler’s ground, n.
Unsentimental Journeys 37: You be hanged, you old fool!at hang, v.1
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