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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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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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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He never paused to weigh his words when he assailed an opponent, believing that in politics billingsgate is the gate of success.

From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Matthews, Brander