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trick up one's sleeve
A secret plan or surprise to use when needed
tricked out
Decorated or equipped with many features or accessories
trickum legis
A quirk or quibble in the law.
tried and tested
Proven to be effective or reliable through experience
tried and true
Reliable and effective due to experience or testing
tried and trusted
Reliable and proven to work well
trifling
Trivial, or of little importance.
trig
The point at which schoolboys stand to shoot their marbles at taw; also the spot whence bowlers deliver the bowl.
trigrymate
An idle female companion.
trillest
Rillest.
trim
State, dress. In a sad trim; dirty.--Also spruce or fine: a trim fellow.
trim tram
Like master, like man.
trimming
Cheating, changing side, or beating. I'll trim his jacket; I'll thresh him. To be trimmed; to be shaved; I'll just step and get trimmed.
trimmings
The necessary adjuncts to anything cooked, but specially applied to a boiled leg of mutton, as turnips, potatoes, bread, beer, salt, &c. Bets are frequently made for a leg of mutton and TRIMMINGS. Or one person will forfeit the mutton if another will "stand the TRIMMINGS." It is generally a supper feast, held in a public-house, and the rule is for the landlord to charge as TRIMMINGS everything, except the mutton, placed on the table previous to the removal of the cloth.
trine
To hang; also Tyburn.
Trinity House
The association, incorporated by Royal Charter and Acts of Parliament, and, for many purposes, forming a branch of the Board of Trade, constituting the chief pilotage authority of the United Kingdom and being responsible for lighthouses and seamarks in home waters; properly called The Corporation of Trinity House, from its headquarters on Tower Hill, London.
Trinity Term
The period of law sittings in England from the first Tuesday after Trinity Sunday to the end of July.
trinity vouchsafed to him
He was a son of the Spanish ducal house of Loyola, and after being severely wounded at the siege of Pam- peluna (1521) left the army and dedicated himself to the service of the Virgin. The society of Jesus (see JESUITS), which he projected in 1534, was confirmed by Paul III in 1540.
trinkets
Toys, bawbles, or nicknacks.
trinkum-trankum
A trinket.
trip
A short voyage or journey, a false step or stumble, an error in the tongue, a bastard. She has made a trip; she has had a bastard.
trip out
to experience something intensely enjoyable or surprising
trip the light fantastic
To dance.
trip to the woodshed
a scolding or punishment
tripe
The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails: also a jeering appellation for a fat man.
Triple Alliance
A treaty entered into by England, Sweden, and Holland against Louis XIV in 1668. It ended in the treaty of Aix-la- Chapelle.
Tristan and Isolde
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
tristran's dog
Hodain, or Leon. (3) DOGS FAMOUS IN HISTORY, LITERATURE, FICTION, ETC.
Trojan War
The legendary war sung by Homer in the Iliad (q.v.) as having been waged for ten years by the confederated Greeks against the men of Troy and their allies, in consequence of Paris, son of Priam, the Trojan king, having carried off Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Lacedemon (or of Sparta). The last year of the siege is the subject of the Iliad; the burning of Troy and the flight of jEneas is told by Virgil in his &neid.
trolley off
To go away.
trollies
Or TROLLY-CARTS, term given by costermongers to a species of narrow carts, which can either be drawn by a donkey or driven by hand.
trolling
Sauntering or idling, hence TROLL and TROLLOCKS, an idle slut, a "moll," which see.
trollop
A lusty coarse sluttish woman.
trollop
A slatternly woman, a prostitute.
trolly lolly
Coarse lace once much in fashion.
tronna
Toronto.
trooper
You will die the death of a trooper's horse, that is, with your shoes-on; a jocular method of telling any one he will be hanged.
trooping the colour
A military ceremonial parade in which the regimental flag, the colour, is carried between files of troops and received by the sovereign or a representative.
trophy wife
A wife who is considered a status symbol due to her beauty or youth
trosseno
Literally, "one sort," but professional slangists use it to imply anything that is bad. TROSS, among costermongers, means anything bad. It is probably a corruption of trash. Possibly, however, the constant use of the words "dab-tros" may have led them in their unthinking way to imagine that the latter word will do by itself.
trot
An old trot; a decrepit old woman. A dog trot; a gentle pace.
trot
To "run up," to oppose, to bid against at an auction. Private buyers at auctions know from experience how general is the opposition against them from dealers, "knock-outs," and other habitués of sales, who regard the rooms as their own peculiar domain. "We TROTTED him up nicely, didn’t we?" i.e., we made him (the private buyer) pay dearly for what he bought.
trot out
To introduce or exhibit something familiar or old-fashioned
trotter
A tailor’s man who goes round for orders.—University.
trotter case
a suitcase or traveling bag
trotters
Feet. To shake one's trotters at Bilby's ball, where the sheriff pays the fiddlers; perhaps the Bilboes ball, i.e. the ball of fetters: fetters and stocks were anciently called the bilboes.
trotters
Feet. Sheep’s TROTTERS, boiled sheep’s feet, a favourite street delicacy.
trouble and strife
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
trouble at mill
Indicates a problem or crisis, often unexpectedly
trouble in paradise
Problems or difficulties in a previously ideal situation
trouser monkey
The penis.
trouser snake
The penis.
Troy Town
A Cornish expression for a labyrinth of streets, a regular maze. In several novels "Q" (Sir A. Quiller Couch) used the name as a disguise for Fowey. Troy was formerly used figuratively of any scene of disorder or confusion; a room with its disorder or confusion; a room with its furni- ture all higgledy-piggledy, for instance, would be called a Troy fair.
Truce of God
In 1041 the Church attempted to limit private war, and decreed that there should be no hostilities between Lent and Advent or from the Thursday to the next Monday at the time of great festivals. This Truce of Cod was confirmed by the Lateran Council in 1 179, and was agreed to by England, France, Italy, and other countries; but little attention was ever paid to it. Truck System, The.
truck
To exchange, swop, or barter; also a wheel such as ship's guns are placed upon.
truck
A hat—from the cap on the extremity of a mast.—Sea.
truck and trailer
a large vehicle combination
trucks
Trousers.
True as Coventry blue
The reference is to a blue cloth and blue thread made at Coventry, noted for its permanent dye.
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