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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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.

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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.

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He above all others commands the greatest flow of billingsgate, and is especially notorious for his arrogant treatment of his customers, and for exacting the uttermost farthing.

From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns