| 单词 | gammon and spinach |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgammon and spinach P3. gammon and spinach: nonsense, rubbish; humbug. ΚΠ 1807 ‘Q. Queerum’ Ashburner's New Vocal & Poetic Repository 185 With a rowly powly, Gammon and spinnage, O heigh, said Anthony Rowly. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xxii. 232 What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it! 1936 Musical Times 77 996/1 What funny old stuff is Bishop's ‘Daughter of Error’—one of a great many profitable errors of old Sir Henry Rowley's gammon and spinach. 2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 Apr. 22 Lots of stuff about level playing fields and EU employment legislation. To which I say gammon and spinach! < as lemmas |
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