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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (4 ed.)
...a banquet or feast. Rule the roost , found from the mid 18th century, has now replaced the earlier version. rule someone or something with a rod of iron : see rod . run the rule over examine cursorily for correctness or adequacy. British 2013 Motley Fool Our...
Fool Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes. All Fools’ Day 1 April. See april fool . April Fool See under april . As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks See under as . Court fools See under court . Feast of Fools, The See under feast . Flannelled fools See under flannel . Gooseberry fool See under gooseberry . Paradise of fools, The See under paradise . Play the fool, To See under play . Ship of fools, The See under ship . Tomfool See under tom . Wisest fool in Christendom, The See under wise...
Innocent, An Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...An An idiot or born fool was formerly so called. As innocent as a lamb See under as . Feast of the Holy Innocents, The See holy innocents . Holy Innocents See under holy . Massacre of the Innocents, The See under massacre . Ring of Innocent, The See under ring...
Feast Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... Day (25 December). Others are the Naming of Jesus, formerly known as the Circumcision (1 January), epiphany (6 January), all hallows day (1 November), the various Apostles’ days and the anniversaries of martyrs and saints. The movable feasts are those that depend on easter Day. Also among them are the Sundays after the Epiphany, septuagesima sunday , the Sundays of lent , Rogation Sunday, ascension day , Pentecost or whitsunday , trinity sunday and the Sundays after Trinity. Feast of Fools, The A kind of clerical saturnalia , popular in the...
Ass Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...See also ass-eared . Ass with two panniers, An A man out walking with a lady on each arm. The expression is from the French faire le panier à deux anses (‘to make a basket with two handles’). Balaam’s ass See under balaam . Buridan’s ass See under buridan . Feast of asses See feast of fools . Golden Ass, The See under golden . Law is an ass, The See under law . Wrangle for an ass’s shadow, To See under wrangle...
Cap Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...in the cap of youth’ ( Hamlet , IV, vii ( 1600 )), or ‘Thou art the cap of all the fools alive’ ( Timon of Athens , IV, iii ( 1607 )). Cap and bells The insignia of a professional fool or jester. Cap and gown The full academic costume of a university student, tutor or graduate, worn on formal occasions. Is it a cap and gown affair? Cap and Stocking A Leicester public house whose name and sign commemorates the importance of these articles to the town’s industry, especially the making of statute caps . See also public house signs . Capful of wind Olaus...
Seven Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...from the cross and the entombment. See also seven joys of mary . Seven spiritual works of mercy, The The seven spiritual works of mercy are: (1) to convert the sinner, (2) to instruct the ignorant, (3) to counsel those in doubt, (4) to comfort those in sorrow, (5) to bear wrongs patiently, (6) to forgive injuries, (7) to pray for the living and the dead. See also seven corporal works of mercy . Seven stars, The A name used formerly of the planets , also of the pleiades and the great bear . Fool : The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven...
bladdy adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...expletive, the local pron. of the UK bloody adj. 1926 E. Walrond Tropic Death ( 1972 ) 42: I let dem understand quick enough dat I wuz a Englishman and not a bleddy American nigger! 1948 P. Kavanagh Tarry Flynn ( 1965 ) 30: What the bleddy hell are ye listening to women's talk for? 1960 D. Lytton Goddam White Man 74: Drink that bladdy drink up. 1963 K. Mackenzie Dragon to Kill 151: You bleddy fool! 1975 S. Roberts ‘And Never Come Back Again’ Outside Life's Feast 19: We never even got a bladdy cup of tea. 1981 C. Hope ...
tub-thumper n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... Anderby Wold ( 1981 ) 247: And you'll follow a hot-brained tub-thumper from Manchester, whose business it is to fool you left and right. Don't you know he's being paid to fool you? 1947 B. Schulberg Harder They Fall ( 1971 ) 52: You shouldn't be a tub-thumper for a stable of fighters. 1952 Lait & Mortimer USA Confidential 52: Eleanor Roosevelt […] is the chief tub-thumper for socialism. 1971 F.J. Hardy Outcasts of Foolgarah ( 1975 ) 81: He was […] tub-thumper on the Domain. 1982 R.H. Mason Photography Year Bk 235: A well...
lurch v. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... Jonson Silent Woman V iv: You have lurch'd your friends of the better halfe of the Garland, by concealing this part of the plot. 1613 Middleton Chaste Maid in Cheapside III ii: Now we shall have such pocketing; See how they lurch at the lower end. a. 1661 ‘Answer to a Letter from Sir John Mennis ’ Rump Poems and Songs ( 1662 ) I 210: Our Gossip spoons away were lurcht, / Our Feasts and Fees for Women churcht. 1665 ‘R.M.’ Scarronides 12: A good cloath coat, the Rogues did lurch. c. 1698 B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Lurched , Beaten at...
mental adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... 1991 F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 101: The dog's gone mental. [Ibid.] 104: The chicks will go mental for us. 2001 N. Barlay Hooky Gear 6: Monica is gonna go mental when I take hers for the school run in the a.m. 2 to have an uproarious time. 2000 Guardian Guide 8–14 Jan. 26: The whole place is going mental to that wicked William Orbit tune. ▪ SE in slang uses ▪ In compounds mental giant ( n. ) ( US campus ) a fool, an idiot. 1989 P. Munro Sl. U. mental hernia ( n. ) ( US ) 1 a fool, an idiot. 1971 E.E. Landy ...
jilt n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...‘Bacchus's Feast’ Buck's Delight 39: Then reeling away they all rambled in quest / Of drunkards and jilts of the town. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda ( 1994 ) 106: Think of that jilt's tricking this poor fellow out of his aloe. 1808 G. Andrewes Stranger's Guide or Frauds of London 15: Jilts are ladies of easy virtue […] they have more art than the street-walker, and more cant and cunning. 1836 ‘A New Version Of Regent Street’ Cockchafer 14: What I have heard I'll tell to you […] It was told me by a jilt. 1858 ‘ A. Pendragon ’ Queen of the South ...
Eyetie n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... Glitz 252: Didn't matter if he got dumped on or made to look a fool by some Eyetie. 1989 H. Rawson Dict. of Invective ( 1991 ) 12: The time-honored tradition of disparaging other nationalities, including the […] Italians ( Eyetalians, macaronis, meatballs ). 1990 J. Healy Streets Above Us ( 1991 ) 118: Well, we've wasted a lot of time here and we still got that brothel case them Eyeties was running from that ice-cream van. 2000 Guardian 13 Apr. 21: Forming a team of what the locals called, with genuine affection, ‘our Eye-ties’. 2 the...
she-male n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...ain't you asking questions about getting out of here instead of fooling with the shemale? 1943 R.L. Bellem ‘Dead Man's Shakedown’ in Dan Turner Detective Mar. [Internet] Thirty-seven silly shemales got trampled in the crush at his funeral; and even now, veiled wrens put posies on his grave almost daily. 1980 Barltrop & Wolveridge Muvver Tongue 67: Adult examples are ‘she-male’ for female. 2 a female transvestite. 1842 Whip (N.Y.) 30 July 2/4: That infamous strumpet Hal Grandy […] thinks nothing of Promenading Broadway in open day in men's...
blerry adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... 116: ‘Blerrie fool!’ Gus exploded. 1972 ‘ Rawbone Malong ’ Ah Big Yaws? 14: Blerri, Blarri, Blatty, Bletty. The usual variants on what used to be ‘By Our lady’ […] ‘Weather blerrielle hiv ubin?’ 1973 Y. Burgess A Life to Live ( 2002 ) 53: Stew, stew, stew. […] Everyday it's blarry stew. [Ibid.] 54: You can blarry get out if you don't like it, you got a blarry cheek, that's what you got, you pay me next to sweet blarry buggerall and what do you want? Blarry chicken every day? 1975 S. Roberts ‘Cleft Stick’ Outside Life's Feast 85: There was a...
Hottentot n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...[proper name Hottentot, poss. meaning ‘stutterer’ or ‘stammerer’. ‘One of the two sub-races of the Khoisanid race (the other being the Sanids or Bushmen), characterized by short stature, yellow-brown skin colour, and tightly curled hair. They are of mixed Bushman-Hamite descent with some Bantu admixture, and are now found principally in South-West Africa’ ( OED ). Since 18C the term has been used abusively, to describe someone ‘uncivilized’ and of inferior intelligence and culture] 1 a fool, a simpleton. 1721, 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-Filius ( 2004 ) No. XXXV...
pissed adj. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...Caper 14: 'E's pissed as a puddin'. 1989 Viz June/July 43: Pissed as a cunt! 2003 McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 158: pissed as ten pigeons under a mockamock tree Very inebriated, as pigeons become from feasting off the mako-malco, the wineberry tree. …a chook [ chook n. (1)] ( N.Z. ) 1985 D.H. Binney Long Lives the King 53: Your mate's as pissed as a chook and you don't look too steady on your pins [DNZE]. …a fart [fig. use of fart n. (1)] 1977 (con. 1962 ) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 54: You were pissed as a fart,...
get going v. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...the technicalities of the game something has to give way. 1914 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Aug. 52/1: ‘'Ey, 'Arris, give th' old pot a rest, f'r Gossake!’ […] ‘Not me! I got 'im fairly goin' now!’ 1935 L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays ( 1969 ) Act I: Don't ever show black folks they got you going, though. 1945 ‘ Henry Green ’ Loving ( 1978 ) 125: Here […] let's see if we can set old Kate goin'. 1974 G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 223: Sneed's tone was mocking, but his expression dead-pan, and briefly got DS Feast going. 1983 J....
bean n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...will be held on the 22d of this present July, where the Company of all the Friends will be esteemed as a favour to the House, and compliment to the Stewards.] 1837 Comic Almanack Mar. 82: The petition of the Ducks to be presented to Mr. Poulter , for the discontinuance of Bean Feasts. 1879 ‘'Arry on the Road’ Punch 9 Aug. 83/1: 'Twas a bit of a beanfeast, you see, and our lot tooled it down in a drag. 1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 217: Another good way we discovered of irritating the aristocratic type of steam launch, was to mistake...
stone n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...The City knockers are next week to have a Feast of Rams stones at fumblers Hall. c. 1660 ‘A Ffreinde of Mine’ in Furnivall & Hales Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript of Loose and Humorous Songs ( 1868 ) 90: Sshe caught him ffast by the stones: thumsbes; / whereatt he vext and greiued was, / soe that his fflesh did wrinkle. 1675 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things 287: You have done nothing else for many years, but lay your stones in foul places, with your Whores and Courtezans. 1682 ‘The Gelding of the Devil’ in Farmer Merry Songs and...
