Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box in which clothes are kept (see
rag , n., 12). [Slang.] The mouth: as, to shut the rag-box, to hold the tongue.
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Examples
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'"Are you that?" sez I; "thin I'm O'Connell the Dictator, an' by this you will larn to kape a civil tongue in your rag-box. "
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"'Are you that?' sez I; 'thin I'm O'Connell the Dictator, an' by this you will larn to kape a civil tongue in your rag-box. '
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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