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Tag: Brendan Behan

‘someone’s blood is worth bottling’: meaning and early occurrences

27th Apr 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

a statement of praise or admiration—Australia, 1903—also used, in particular, by Irish author Brendan Behan (1923-1964)

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the sexual meanings of ‘crumpet’ in British English

17th May 2019.Reading time 15 minutes.

women regarded collectively as objects of sexual desire; sexual intercourse—first recorded in ‘The Gilt Kid’ (1936), by James Curtis (Geoffrey Basil Maiden)

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