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Hertford Mercury 5 Jan. 3/2: Irish Emigrants in America [...] They flourish their cudgels [...] get drunk and kick up a row [...] and make early acquaintance with the interior of the lock-ups.at lockup, n.
Hertford Mercury 5 Jan. 3/2: Irish Emigrants in America [...] They flourish their cudgels [...] get drunk and kick up a row [...] and make early acquaintance with the interior of the lock-ups. Hertford Mercury 19 Dec. 2/6: We would bet Lombard Street to a China orange that he never gets in.at Lombard Street to a china orange, phr.
Hertford Mercury & Reformer (Herts.) 2 Nov. 1/6: Then [...] with an impudent grin and extended hand, ‘Baksheesh!’.at baksheesh, n.
Hertford Mercury & Reformer 9 Jan. 3/3: I heard Cornelius say to the other [...] ‘D— your eyes, stand still’.at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
Hertford Mercury 22 Dec. 4/1: A Smithfield bargain is necessarily a gambling transaction, since it always invoves risking the chance of a toss-up.at Smithfield bargain (n.) under Smithfield, n.
Hertford Mercury 16 Sept. 3/3: When Rainbird passed, he, Lawrence, called out ‘Hollo Fathead,’ and Rainbird came back and asked who called him ‘Fathead’.at fat-head, n.1
Hertford Mercury 22 July 2/7: You’ll have to look for Ministers, to fresh young blades like me.at blade, n.
Hertford Mercury 22 July 2/7: Lord Palmerston’s a good old soul [...] But he must soon go off the hooks, and then [...] you’ll have to look for Ministers, to fresh young blades like me.at off the hooks under hook, n.1
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