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to rail it
To travel by rail-road. From Petersburgh I railed it through the North Carolina pitch, tar, turpent...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to spark it
To court. Used chiefly in New England. You were a nation sight wiser than brother Jonathan, sister ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to streak it
is to run as fast as possible. O'er hill and dale with fury she did dreel, A' roads to her were go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fix it
A vulgarism of recent origin, but now very common. It is heard in such phrases as, 'I will not do so...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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pick-it-up
n. a boys' name for the Diamondbird (q.v.). 1896. G. A. Keartland, `Horne Expedition in CentralAus...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to go it blind
To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go it strong
To perform an act with vigor or without scruple. President Polk in his message goes it strong for t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to keep it up
To prolong a debauch. 'He kept it up finely last night;' a metaphor drawn from a game of shuttlecock...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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can't come it
is a vulgar expression for cannot do it. "You can't come it over me so," i. e. you cannot effect you...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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i swamp it!
An interjection of the same meaning as I swan! which see. Had that darn'd old vessel--that frigate ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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in for it
Engaged in a thing from which there is no retreating. You may twitch at your collar and wrinkle you...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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say of it
taste it. S. From the French word. ESSAYER. Sc ADDING OF PEAS, a custom in the North, of boiling th...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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to give it to one
is to rate, scold, or beat him severely.--Holloway, Prov. Dict. Used in the same sense in America. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...