act like a bull in a china shop »
To act rudely or clumsily in a delicate situation.
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all nations »
A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram-shop, collected in a vessel into which the drainings of the bottles and quartern pots are emptied.
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all over the shop »
Everywhere, scattered, disorganised.
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apple dumplin shop »
A woman's bosom.
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avoir du pois lay »
Stealing brass weights off the counters of shops.
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close up shop »
To shut down a shop; to end a business activity.
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five-finger discount »
Theft or pilferage, typically of a small item; shoplifting.
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hard shoulder »
mortorway shopping area
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knee high to a grasshopper »
Short; especially relating to when the subject was a small child.
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off licence »
drinks shop
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quarter of »
"I need twenty minutes to get to the shop." "You'll be late. It's already a quarter of.".
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ring up »
To enter a payment into a cash register, or till in a shop.
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set up shop »
To establish a business.
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set up shop »
To physically arrange a shop or workplace.
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throw dirt enough, and some will stick »
If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at [1] on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say
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