10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARRY THE CAN»
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carry the can in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
carry the can and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p 46, 1981 - carry the can
back; carry the can to take the blame or punishment on behalf of another; to be
made a scapegoat; to do the dirty work while another gets the Credit UK, 1929
Navy ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to
the ...
Q. I read in a British newspaper that the PM is happy that his successor as
Chancellor is more than willing to carry the can for the PM's mistakes. There may
be a couple of confusing terms in that sentence, especially for your legions of ...
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The Role of Dictionary Use in
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LDOCE3 OALD5 COBUILD2 CIDE MEDAL BrE informal to be blamed or
punished for something that is someone else's fault as well as your own: Why am
1 always left to carry the can? (infml) to accept the responsibility or blame for ...
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Official Gazette of
the United States Patent Office
... mold into the can filling the same from the bottom, and a reciprocating slide to
carry the can onto the tube, combined and arranged substantially as described,
as and for the purposes stated. 13. In a c Mi-filling machine, a reciprocating
piston, ...
United States. Patent Office, 1885
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Reports Containing
the Cases Determined in All
the Circuits ...
(5) In a machine for cupping and crimping cans, the combination, with a revoluble
disk horizontally arranged, and provided with an even surface to carry the can-
heads on, of a fixed guldeway adapted to guide the can-heads while carried on ...
United States. Courts: Circuit Court of Appeals, 1899
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Dictionary of Euphemisms
carousel I carry the can 114 carousel British a fraud involving tax repayment The
goods are imported without being declared, sold to an exporter charging British
value added tax, and then re-exported, when the exporter reclaims the tax from ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... transferred to other endeavors. carry the can Take responsibility or accept
blame, as in Ioan felt she was always carrying the can for her boss's errors. [
Slang; second half of. 1900 ...
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United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports: With ...
(5) In a machine for capping and crimping cans, the combination, with a revoluble
disk horizontally arranged, and provided with an even surface to carry the can-
heads on, of a fixed guideway adapted to guide the can-heads while carried on ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
See cag, 1. carry the can. To be reprimanded: RN: late C.19-early 20. (Bowen.)
Perhaps influenced by carry the keg. The orig., RAF CART form, later common to
all Services, and current ca. 1920—45, carry the can back, meant to be made the
...
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The Federal reporter: with key-number annotations ...
... which move back and forth crosswise of the machine, and, while moving
towards each other, they carry the can heads towards each other, shape and size
the ends (but only the ends of the can body that is between them), and then force
the ...
James Wells Goodwin, Peyton Boyle, Robert Desty, 1896
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CARRY THE CAN»
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carry the can is used in the context of the following news items.
Rate Payers will carry the Can for Sky Path
Rate Payers will carry the Can for Sky Path. Last week, Auckland Council struggled to justify at 10% increase in rates. This week it is committing ... «Scoop.co.nz, Jul 15»
Greece crisis: Not since the war have Europeans hated each other …
Sometimes the rating agencies are made to carry the can, sometimes it is the markets or, increasingly often, Brussels and Berlin: identifying ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Sign The Sun on Sunday Truckers' Charter
Drivers shouldn't carry the can for political failure here or across Europe. “Drivers are suffering stress, intimidation and frustration. I urge every Sun on Sunday ... «The Sun, Jul 15»
Premier Christy Clark to blame for plebiscite failure
... blame the mayors for a lack of leadership and a poorly run campaign to bring this one home, ultimately it is Clark who should carry the can. «Vancouver Courier, Jul 15»
Andrew Allison: Schools should not police lunch boxes
It seems to me that they are only there to ultimately carry the can when something goes badly wrong. After an Ofsted report, the school had ... «Conservative Home, Jul 15»
McLaren team 'among the best ever'
Hamilton decamped for Mercedes at the end of the year, chief executive Martin Whitmarsh left suddenly in early 2014, obliged to carry the can ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
Bankrupt states: Why successors may not speak up against …
This is because he has come to carry the can of another person. For the refuse, the magnitude I saw on television to dot the city, it means that ... «BusinessDay, Jul 15»
Devolution means local government can afford to be more ambitious
The potential risk is that councils will carry the can if things do not happen as they would hope. This is a trade-off most people in local ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Lloyds and the City love it – but is TSB's takeover good for us too?
By which time those who approved this deal will have moved on, so they won't have to carry the can along with us. World News in Pictures. «The Independent, Jun 15»
[Article]: Why Elvis Afriyie Ankrah should have been fired after 2014 …
I am not saying that the Black Stars and the GFA are blameless, but on this issue, government has to carry the can for indecision, which proved ... «Citifmonline, Jun 15»
