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Opera produced in Lon- don in 1727 with enormous success. The words are by Gay and the music, partly traditional ballads and partly contemporary *'hits," was arranged by Pepusch. The "hero" is a highwayman, MacHeath, and the -originality lay in composing an opera round .-criminals and Newgate Prison.
Someone in a desperate situation must accept what is available
One should accept what is available, rather than being picky.
Beggars must take what is given them, and not dictate to the giver what they like best. They must accept and be thankful.
Downy particles which accumulate under furniture from the negligence of housemaids. Otherwise called SLUTS’-WOOL.
start doing something
From the start to the finish of something
nagware
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
In secrecy.
A successful man is often supported by a capable and dedicated partner
Outdated or old-fashioned
to do something secretly without someone's knowledge
Unable to control a situation
Working in a service industry, especially in retail or food service.
In a difficult or precarious situation
Happening secretly or out of public view
Out-dated.
In a prison camp or refugee camp.
Late or past a scheduled time
He will dance at Beilby's ball, where the sheriff pays the music; he will be hanged. Who Mr. Beilby was, or why that ceremony was so called, remains with the quadrature of the circle, the discovery of the philosopher's stone, and divers other desiderata yet undiscovered.
All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.
A red silk handkerchief, intermixed with yellow and a little black. The kiddey flashes his belcher; the young fellow wears a silk handkerchief round his neck.
A blue bird’s-eye handkerchief.—See BILLY.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
The soldiers gave themselves this name as a compliment, from an army order that was said to have been given at Aix on August 19th by the Kaiser to his generals.
A Belgian.
They occupied the low track along the frontiers of the German- speaking territory, as Artois, Hainault, Namur, Liege, Luxemburg, with parts of Flanders and Brabant.
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
To be unable to believe what one is hearing
to trust what one is seeing
used to emphasize the truth of something
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A song. Tramps’ term. Simply diminutive of BELLOW.
to speak or sing loudly and clearly
A lovelock.
A noisy bullying fellow.
to take a risk to deal with a problem
They cursed him with bell, book, and candle; an allusion to the popish form of excommunicating and anathematizing persons who had offended the church.
Polite literature; poetry, and standard literary works which are not scientific or technical: the study or pursuit of such literature. The term — which is French — has given birth to the very ugly words bellettrist and bellettristic.
The lungs. BELLOWSER, a blow in the "wind," or pit of the stomach, taking one’s breath away.
Or LAGGED, transported.
Transportation for life: i.e. as long.
The chief or leader of a mob; an idea taken from a flock of sheep, where the wether has a bell about his neck.
A jocose and rather deprecatory term applied to the leader of a party. The allusion is to the wether or sheep which leads the flock with a bell fastened to its neck.
A state that accurately predicts national election outcomes
His eye was bigger than his belly; a saying of a person at a table, who takes more on his plate than he can eat.
The plea of pregnancy, generally adduced by female felons capitally convicted, which they take care to provide for, previous to their trials; every gaol having, as the Beggar's Opera informs us, one or more child getters, who qualify the ladies for that expedient to procure a respite.
to fail or go bankrupt
to approach or participate in something with enthusiasm
Small sour beer, apt to cause gastralgia.
A hearty beating, sufficient to make a man yield or give out. A woman with child is also said to have got her belly full.
to be the property or possession of someone
be a part or member of something
Not meeting the usual standard or expectation
Unfair.
Said of one who has not yet reached the presidential position, as of an alderman who has not yet served the mayoralty.
In the House of Com- mons, on the farther side of the passage-way between the seats which separate the Ministry from the rest of the Members. To sit "below the gangway" is to sit amongst the general members, and not among the Ministers or ex- Ministers and leaders of the Opposition.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.