billingsgate
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
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He above all others commands the greatest flow of billingsgate, and is especially notorious for his arrogant treatment of his customers, and for exacting the uttermost farthing.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
