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keep
Food; subsistence; keeping. In a letter to his brother, Bishop Heber, speaking of Bishops' College c...
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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hut-keep
v. to act as hut-keeper. 1865. S. Sidney, `Three Colonies of Australia,' p. 380 «At this, as well...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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stock-keep
v. a quaint compound verb. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. x. p. 96(1890): «`What ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to keep company
To court. A common term in the interior parts of New England, applied to a man whose visits to a lad...
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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to keep a stiff upper lip
is to continue firm, unmoved. My friend, said he, don't cry for spilt milk; keep a stiff upper lip;...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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keep the pot a boiling
i. e. Don't let the game flag. A common expression among young people, when they are anxious to carr...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.