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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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic 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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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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There would soon be fine work, if any notice was taken of their billingsgate and abuse; but all their arrows rebound, and fall harmless to the ground.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)