billingsgate

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Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations�including British Ford's acceptance of unions at Dagenham during World War II.

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

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That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man."

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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One must have read much in Luther, one should have read all of Luther, and his "billingsgate" will assume a different meaning.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)