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any how
At any rate, on any account, in any way. We have no confidence in cobble-stone pavement for Broadwa...
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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how fare you?
This is a common expression in those parts of New England for 'How do you do?.' It is pronounced sho...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fix
A condition; predicament; dilemma. Some feller jest come and tuck my bundle and the jug of spirits,...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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how?
for what? Used chiefly in New England, like the French comment? in asking for the repetition of some...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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billy-can
n. a variation of the above, moreused by townsmen than bushmen. 1892. `The Australasian,' April 9, ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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how-come?
Rapidly pronounced huc-cum, in Virginia. Doubtless an English phrase, brought over by the original s...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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you don't!
for you don't say so; really! indeed! as, 'Mr. A threw a back somerset out of a three-story window. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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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d'rabbit it
a vulgar exclamation or abbreviation of God rabbit it, a foolish evasion of an oath. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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to fix one's flint
is a phrase taken from backwoods life, and means the same as to settle; to do for; to dish. "Take i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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out of fix
Disarranged; in a state of disorder. The week was the longest one ever was. It seemed to me that th...
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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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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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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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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thank you for them
an answer to an enquiry after absent friends. North. They are very well, I thank you for them. ...
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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to see how the cat jumps
A metaphorical expression meaning, to discover the secrets or designs of others. We also say, in th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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if so be as how
A vulgar expression used by uneducated people in the interior parts of this country and in England. ...
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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...