billingsgate
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.
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Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.
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A just and rational censure ought to be expressed on them, while we disapprove the constant billingsgate poured on them officially.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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