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as the crow flies

adverb idiomatic In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.

adverb by the shortest and most direct route

October 8, 2021

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c.3.c as the crow flies, etc.: in a direct line, without any of the détours caused by following the road.

   1800 Southey Lett. (1856) I. 110 About fifteen miles, the crow's road.    1810 Sporting Mag. XXXV. 152 The distance‥is upwards of twenty-five miles as the crow flies.    1838 Dickens O. Twist xxv, We cut over the fields‥straight as the crow flies.

October 8, 2021

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The two longest entries produce 404 errors.

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stalking-horses:

Ada and I agreed, as we talked together for a little while upstairs, that this caprice about the wind was a fiction and that he used the pretence to account for any disappointment he could not conceal, rather than he would blame the real cause of it or disparage or depreciate any one. We thought this very characteristic of his eccentric gentleness and of the difference between him and those petulant people who make the weather and the winds (particularly that unlucky wind which he had chosen for such a different purpose) the stalking-horses of their splenetic and gloomy humours.

October 9, 2021

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chancery

1853 Dickens Bleak Ho. ix. 60 ‘There never was such an infernal cauldron as that Chancery on the face of the earth.’

   1853 Dickens Bleak Ho. Pref., A *Chancery Judge once had the kindness to inform me‥that the Court of Chancery‥was almost immaculate.

1874 Ruskin Fors Clav. IV. 244 Dickens I have heard had real effects on *Chancery practice.

   1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xxi. 162 A *Chancery suit, the costs of which would undoubtedly fall on the claimants.

   1830 Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 258 The celebrated injunction of a noble *chancery-suitor to his son.

   1851 Melville Moby Dick I. xvi. 118 Widows, fatherless children, and *chancery wards.

October 14, 2021

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Antipodean

2.A.2 humorously, Having everything upside down.

   1852 Dickens Bleak Ho. (1853) 621 A kind of Antipodean lumber room, full of old chairs and tables, upside down.

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Chadband

(ˈtʃædbænd)

Name of a character, ‘the Rev. Mr. Chadband’, in Dickens's Bleak House.

A canting unctuous hypocrite. So Chadˈbandian a.; ˈChadbandism; ˈChadbandize v. intr.

   Dickens Bleak Ho. xix. 187 The Chadband style of oratory is widely received and much admired.'>1852 Dickens Bleak Ho. xix. 187 The Chadband style of oratory is widely received and much admired.    

1908 Daily Chron. 4 Nov. 5/3 There is no Chadbandian caricaturing of the parson.    

1913 G. B. Shaw Quint. Ibsenism 189 Any attempt to Chadbandize on the wickedness of such crimes is at once resented as‥‘moral babble’.    

1920 Punch 14 Jan. 33/2 His caustic dispraise Of President Wilson's Chadbandian ways.   

 1923 A. G. Gardiner Cadbury 259 His dislike of narrowness of view and Chadbandism kept him free from censoriousness.

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Growlery

2.2 (After Dickens's use in Bleak House.) A place to ‘growl’ in; jocularly applied to a person's private sitting room. (Cf. boudoir and den.)

   1852 Dickens Bleak Ho. viii, ‘Sit down, my dear’, said Mr. Jarndyce; ‘this, you must know, is the Growlery. When I am out of humour I come and growl here’.

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