billingsgate
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic 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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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
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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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Their weapons were “loathsome billingsgate and brutality,” and “sublime bathos.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette