КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «BETWEEN YOU AND ME AND THE BEDPOST»
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Slang
and Its Analogues Past
and Present: A Dictionary ...
Smedley, Harry Coverdale, i.'I'll adown and be with you in... the twinkling ofa
bedpost.' 1871. M. Collins, Mrq. andMerck. in, iii.78.In the twinkling of a bedpost
Is each savoury platter clean. between you and me and the bedpost, phr. (
common).
BETWEEN YOU AND ME AND THE BEDPOST/ CAT/GATEPOST A married
couple might say between you and me and the bedpost. Someone with a cat
might say between you and me and the cat. Someone chatting to a neighbor over
the ...
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang
and Unconventional ...
San Francisco News, p. s, 30th August 1954 between you and me and the gate-
post; between you and me and the bedpost between ourselves uk, 1832
Conjuring the image of a confidence passed over a garden gate. The 'bedpost', a
...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... devil and drowning in deep waters. between the lines P See READ BETWEEN
THE LINEs. between you and me Also, between ourselves; just between you and
me and the bedpost or four walls or gatepost or lamppost. In strict confidence.
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... between you and me and the bedpost at BEDPOST. gather gather dust: see
DUST. gaunflet run the gauntlet go through an intimidating or dangerous crowd,
place, or experience in order to reach a goal. 6 This phrase alludes to the former
...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
1 between you and me/ourselves just between you and me, I think I'm in love with
him: between us, entre nous, in (strict) confidence, confidentially, in private,
privately, off the record; informal between you and me and the bedpost/gatepost/
wall ...
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The Pilgrim Edition of
the Letters of Charles Dickens: ...
Carlyle on 27 May {Correspondence of 3 Not recorded, but meaning obvious:
Emerson and Carlyle, p. 3 56M) and gave him cf. "between you and me and the
bedpost" valuable advice about his brother Alex- (from 1830). CD's variant
suggests ...
Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey, 1974
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Magickum.Prophetic dreams
and lucid dreaming.Theory
and ...
This, of course, is so between you and me and the bedpost... ―In a word, I had a
dinner, the fire burned down to embers - and I went to sleep. I tossed and turned
until I was blue in the face, yet I couldn't get off to sleep. Like a moron, I tried to ...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement,
and Instruction
And between you and me, and the bedpost,” whispered the half mollified Mrs. L.,
“ they puzzles me. Their gentleman pays like a gentleman, and has everything
out of this shop, but what six men are shut up, a continually playing on bells for, ...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement,
and Instruction
And between you and me, and the bedpost," whispered the half mollified Mrs. L.,
" they puzzles me. Their gentleman pays like a gentleman, and has everything
out of this shop, but what six men are shut up, a continually playing on bells for, ...
