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."
From Time Magazine Archive
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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The heroic examples of Greek and Roman invective paled before the inexhaustible resources of learned billingsgate stored in the minds of the humanists and theologians.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
