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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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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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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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.

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Otherwise there might have been heard something approaching to billingsgate.

From Active Service by Crane, Stephen