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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Baggs' own opposition to the war earned him a barrage of billingsgate from hawks�who in turn received a rubber-stamp reply: "This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers."
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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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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Lodge's reply was a fair sample of the literary billingsgate of that controversial age and deserves the oblivion into which it promptly sank.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.