billingsgate
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Baggs' own opposition to the war earned him a barrage of billingsgate from hawks�who in turn received a rubber-stamp reply: "This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers."
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations�including British Ford's acceptance of unions at Dagenham during World War II.
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One must have read much in Luther, one should have read all of Luther, and his "billingsgate" will assume a different meaning.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)
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