by Delbosco October 15, 2021
by Delbosco November 13, 2021
A saying signifying that the business or person spoken of or alluded to is finished, i.e. that it has no future.
It is all holiday at Peckham.
by Delbosco November 13, 2021
A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".
by Delbosco October 15, 2021
She, with the greatest effrontery imaginable, unbuttons his breeches, and removing his shirt, draws out his affair, so shrunk and diminished that I could not but remember the difference, now cresfallen, or just faintly lifting its head.
by Delbosco October 15, 2021
I went into the dining-room, and sot down afore a plate that had my name writ on a card onto it; and I did walk into the beef and 'taters and things about east.
by Delbosco October 14, 2021