‘call me anything, so long as you don’t call me late to dinner’
USA, 1833—jocular phrase meaning that the speaker does not care what he is being called—a U.S. and Australian variant uses ‘breakfast’ instead of ‘dinner’
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‘that job’s jobbed’: meaning and early occurrences
used to express satisfaction when a task that has called for more than usual enterprise and determination has been accomplished—UK, 1833
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