ark ruffian »
Rogues who, in conjunction with watermen, robbed, and sometimes murdered, on the water, by picking a quarrel with the passengers in a boat, boarding it, plundering, stripping, and throwing them overboard, etc. A species of badger.
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as luck would have it »
As it happened; how it turned out; by good fortune; fortunately or luckily.
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at a pinch »
By the skin of one’s teeth; only just; Deo volente; perhaps; if you’re lucky..
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at the top of one's lungs »
Possible.
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baby blues »
Blue eyes.
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baby blues »
Period and feeling of depressiveness after giving birth; a less severe form of postnatal depression.
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back to square one »
Located back at the start, as after a dead-end or failure.
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bad apple »
A person who is not wholesome, honest, or trustworthy, especially one who has an adverse influence on others.
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bad iron »
Bad luck.
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bad luck »
ill-fortune
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baggage »
Luggage; traveling equipment.
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balum rancum »
A hop or dance, where the women are all prostitutes. N. B. The company dance in their birthday suits.
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bang for the buck »
Efficiency; cost-effectiveness; value.
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bar none »
Without exception; excluding nothing else of the same kind.
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barrow man »
A man under sentence of transportation; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt.
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