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means meat-pie “The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage table” (Hamlet); i.e. the hot meat-pies (venison pasties) served at the funeral and not eaten, were served…
A Persian word for a gratuity. These gifts are insolently demanded by all sorts of officials in Turkey, Egypt, and Asia Minor, more as a claim than a gratuity. Source: Dictionary of…
(To). To spread the fingers out after having placed one's thumb on the nose. “The officers spoke to him, when the man put his fingers to his nose and pulled bacon.” —Leeds Police Report,…
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The Whorock band One of the seminal rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Roger Daltrey on vocals, Pete Townshend on guitar, and John Entwistle on bass played together in earlier incarnations as…
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