Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase<\/a><\/span> by Andrew Forrester in 1909)<\/p>\nTo sum up:\u00a0 “I’ll never get a treadmill.”\u00a0\u00a0 …didn’t it sound better in slang?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“I’ll collar a vertical care-grinder come Saint Geoffrey’s Day.” Let’s dissect: collar (v)\u00a0to get, to obtain, to comprehend. Ex. “I gotta collar me some food”, “Do you collar this jive?” (Cab Calloway’s\u00a0Cat-ologue 1939) Vertical Care-Grinder: a slang term for the treadmill (The slang dictionary: or, the vulgar words, street phrases and fast expressions of high… Continue reading Clement Skitt’s Word of the Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10406,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/11\/17\/early-photo-manipulation-in-the-sears-catalog\/","url_meta":{"origin":6414,"position":0},"title":"Early photo-manipulation in the Sears catalog","author":"leems","date":"November 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Do I need to introduce why I may have picked up a 'mini' sized reprinting of the fall 1900 Sears, Roebuck and Co. 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“I’ll collar a vertical care-grinder come Saint Geoffrey’s Day.”<\/p>\n