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billingsgate

[bil-ingz-geyt, -git] / ˈbɪl ɪŋzˌgeɪt, -gɪt /


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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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

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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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Otherwise there might have been heard something approaching to billingsgate.

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