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Philip Howard. GRAVY TRAIN AND BAND - WAGON Pass the source ' Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy . He lived in the odium Of having discovered Sodium . ' Biography for Beginners , 1905 , by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Slang sometimes suffers ...
Philip Howard. GRAVY TRAIN AND BAND - WAGON Pass the source ' Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy . He lived in the odium Of having discovered Sodium . ' Biography for Beginners , 1905 , by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Slang sometimes suffers ...
Pagina 64
... gravy ? Do you suppose that boarding the gravy boat is a pun on the boat- shaped container for gravy or sauce ? No , I do not . Gravy boats seem to me archetypically English suburban , and genteel , and boarding - house crockery ...
... gravy ? Do you suppose that boarding the gravy boat is a pun on the boat- shaped container for gravy or sauce ? No , I do not . Gravy boats seem to me archetypically English suburban , and genteel , and boarding - house crockery ...
Pagina 65
Philip Howard. GRAVY TRAIN AND BAND - WAGON Gravy can be an alternative to porridge in criminal slang . When a judge is giving heavy sentences he is spoken of as ' dishing out the gravy ( or porridge ) ' . In British theatrical slang gravy ...
Philip Howard. GRAVY TRAIN AND BAND - WAGON Gravy can be an alternative to porridge in criminal slang . When a judge is giving heavy sentences he is spoken of as ' dishing out the gravy ( or porridge ) ' . In British theatrical slang gravy ...
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