10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AS RIGHT AS A TRIVET»
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Stra to Z
See Right. 1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, ' St. Romwold.' Go home ! you'll
find there all as right as a trivet. 1843. Dickens, M. Chuzzlewit, xxviii. He's all right
now ; you ain't got nothing to cry for, bless you ! he's righter THAN A TRIVET. Hid.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1904
1847: Barham, Ing. Legends, 3rd ser: 'Blasph. Warning'. 1907: De Morgan,. Ilice-
for- Sliort, ch ii. Wait till . . . she's had time to get sober, and she'll be as right as a
trivet. Right as my glove. 1816: Scott, Antiquary, ch xxx. Right, Caxon, right as my
...
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis, 2006
But John Roller, with a hiccough, and a more violent wink than ever, declared
that he was " as right as a trivet." And not only once or twice did he declare it.
Again and again, in every kind of tone, and in every kind of key, he assured me
that he ...
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A Student's Pastime: Being
a Select Series of Articles ...
AS RIGHT AS A TRIVET. 1 7 explanation. He also says, 'the mark of noon on a
dial is in the following passage jocularly called the Christ-cross of the dial, being
the figure of a cross placed instead of xii: — " Fall to your business roundly ; the ...
Walter William Skeat, 1896
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present:
A Dictionary ...
Anonymous. Right. 1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, ' St. Romwold.' Go home !
you'll findthere all as right as a trivet. 1843. Dickens, M.Chuzzlewit, xxviii. He'
sallright now ; you ain't got nothingto cry for,bless you !he's righter than a trivet.
Ibid.
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Bob Edwards' Summer Annual
we'll do the chloroform stunt, Mr. McGonigle, cut you open, dive into your poor old
gut's, slosh around among your _bowels for the bullet and then—ha ha ha l—sew
you up again and send you back here as right as a trivet.” The doctor threw a ...
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The Odd Fellow's Companion: Devoted to the Interests of the ...
And it passed into a byword among them—Harding being as right as a trivet. I
had a plan of my own with my crews. I found spirits in that hot climate did .not
agree with me, nor indeed, any fermented liquors. So for myself I prepared a
mixture of ...
At page 297 he says, " We have the proverb, for such we must call it, ' As right as
a trivet.' — A trivet, as all Cockneys know, is an iron frame to support saucepans
over a kitchen-fire ; and anciently it was so constructed as to be sure to fall right, ...
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Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers and Unabashed ...
sew you up again and send you back here as right as a trivet." The doctor threw a
peculiar glance over to Jimmy, and Jimmy understood. "Ha ha ha!" croaked that
worthy, with a lump in his throat. "As right as a trivet, as right as a trivet, ha ha ha!
Bob Edwards, James Martin, 2005
And it passed into a byword amongst them — Harding's being as right as a trivet.
It is a Suffolk saying, you know. I had a plan of my own with my crews. I found
spirits in that hot climate did not agree with me, nor, indeed, any fermented
liquors.
Eneas Sweetland Dallas, 1867
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