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so
is often improperly used for such, as in the phrase: Prof. W----, who has acquired so high distinct...
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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if so be as how
A vulgar expression used by uneducated people in the interior parts of this country and in England. ...
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...