drum out
to expel or dismiss someone from a group or organization
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drum up
to try to find or create support or interest for something
drum-head court-martial
One held in haste; a court-martial summoned on the field round the drum to deal summarily with an offender.
drummer
A jockey term for a horse that throws about his fore legs irregularly: the idea is taken from a kettle drummer, who in beating makes many flourishes with his drumsticks.
drummer
A robber who first makes his victims insensible by drugs or violence, and then plunders them.
Drumming is not the way to catch a hare. (Strauss, 1994 p. 753)
Noise and showiness are not effective ways to achieve something
drumsticks
Legs; DRUMSTICK CASES, trousers. The leg of a fowl is generally called a DRUMSTICK.
drunk
Drunk as a wheel-barrow. Drunk as David's sow. See DAVID'S SOW.
drunk and disorderly
Behaving in a noisy and disruptive manner while intoxicated
drunk as a lord
In the late 18th century and early 19th the habit of gross drinking was at its height and a man of fashion was judged — or prided himself — on the number of bottles of port he could drink at a sitting. Few dinners ended without placing the guests under the table in a hopeless state of intoxication; hence the expression.
drunk as Chloe
Very drunk.
Drunk as Chloe
Chloe was the cobbler's wife of Linden Grove, to whom Prior, the poet, was attached. She was notorious for her drinking habits.
drunkard's cloak
A tub with holes for the arms to pass through, used in the 17th century for drunkards and scolds by way of punishment.
drunkard's walk
a random and unpredictable course or journey
drunkie
A drunkard.
Drury Lane
This famous London street (and, consequently, the theatre) is named from Drury House, built in the time of Henry VIII by Sir William Drury. It stood on a site about in the middle of the present Aldwych.
drury lane ague
The venereal disorder.
dry as a nun's nasty
Very dry.
dry behind the ears
fully mature and responsible
dry bob
A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus.
dry bob
A boy at Eton College who plays cricket and football instead of going in for rowing.
dry boots
A sly humorous fellow.
dry eye
without shedding a tear
dry goods
Merchandise such as cloth, stuffs, silks, laces, and drapery in general, as opposed to groceries.
Dry January
Abstaining from alcohol for the month of January
dry lodging
Sleeping and sitting accommodation only, without board. This is lodging-house keepers’ slang, and is generally used in reference to rooms let to lodgers who take their meals at their clubs, or in the City, according to their social positions.
dry lodgings
An old expression for sleeping accommodation without board. Gentlemen who took their meals at clubs lived in "dry lodgings.
dry one's eyes
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dry out
to become or make something free from excess moisture
dry run
a practice or test performance without actual implementation
dry shave
A shave without soaping the face; to scrape the face with a piece of iron hoop; to scratch the face; to box it and bruise it.
dry up and blow away
To disappear or die out completely
dry wine
Opposed to sweet or fruity wine. In sweet wine some of the sugar is not yet decomposed ; m dry wine all the sugar has been converted into alcohol. In the same way we speak of a dry biscuit as opposed to a sweet biscuit.
dryasdust
An antiquary. From Scott.
dub
A picklock, or master-key. CANT.
dub
To pay or give; "DUB UP," pay up.
dub lay
Robbing houses by picking the locks.
dub the jigger
Open the door. CANT.
dub up
Pay down the money; "fork out!" Another form of dup (q v.), do up.
dubash
A general agent.—Anglo-Indian.
dubber
A picker of locks. CANT.
dubber
The mouth or tongue; "mum your DUBBER," hold your tongue.
dubsman
A jailer.
dubsman
Or SCREW, a turnkey.—Old Cant.
ducange anglicus
—The Vulgar Tongue: comprising Two Glossaries of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases used in London at the present day, 12mo. 1857.
ducat
A ticket.
ducats
Money.—Theatrical Slang.
duck
A lame duck; an Exchange-alley phrase for a stock-jobber, who either cannot or will not pay his losses, or, differences, in which case he is said to WADDLE OUT OF THE ALLEY, as he cannot appear there again till his debts are settled and paid; should he attempt it, he would be hustled out by the fraternity.
duck
A bundle of bits of the "stickings" of beef sold for food to the London poor.—See FAGGOT.
duck and cover
take shelter immediately
duck down
to lower or hide oneself quickly
duck f-ck-r
The man who has the care of the poultry on board a ship of war.
Duck Lane
Duck Lane (now Duke Street, leading from Little Britain to Long Lane, in the City of London), in Queen Anne's time was famous for its second-hand bookstalls. Scotists and Thomists now in peace remam Amidst their kindred cobwebs in Duck Lane. POPE: Essay on Criticism.
duck off
to leave quickly or secretly
duck out
to leave quickly or secretly
duck soup
Something very easy to do
duck's egg
In cricket a score of 0 — i.e. no score at all , the cipher on the sheet resembling an egg. To break one's duck's egg, or one's duck, is, of course, to make one run or more.
ducked off
Left quickly or secretly
ducket
A ticket of any kind. Generally applied to pawnbroker’s duplicates and raffle cards. Probably from DOCKET.
ducks
Trousers. Sea term. The expression most in use on land is "white DUCKS," i.e., white pantaloons or trousers.
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