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  1. Turn over the perch (1594)
  2. Yield the crow a pudding (1599)
  3. Put to bed with a shovel (1707)
  4. Put into one’s cool crepe (1725)
  5. Slip one’s wind (1772)
  6. Go out with a wooden habeas (1785)
  7. Hop the twig (1797)
  8. Lose the number of one’s mess (1814)
  9. Booked by the Gravesend bus (1838)
  10. Measure over the counter (1841)
  11. Cut the painter (1850)
  12. Ride old Charon’s Ferry-boat (1854)
  13. Hand in one’s checks (1857)
  14. Take a blinder (1859)
  15. Lay down one’s knife and fork (1864)
  16. Make a die of it (1866)
  17. Go up Green River (1872)
  18. Stick one’s spoon in the wall (1873)
  19. Climb the golden staircase (1883)
  20. Deal one’s final lay-out (1887)
  21. Push clouds (1887)
  22. Climb the greasy pole (1890)
  23. Pull the string (of the shower bath) (1893)
  24. Do a seven (1894)
  25. Snuff one’s glim (1900)
  26. Throw in one’s toe (1901)
  27. Take the count (1902)
  28. Shoot one’s star (1903)
  29. Toss in one’s agate (1906)
  30. Chuck up one’s bunch of fives (1909)
  31. Go trumpet cleaning (1915)
  32. Become a landowner (1916)
  33. Answer the last roll call (1936)
  34. Hand in one’s dinner pail (1937)
  35. Climb the six foot ladder (1950)
trumpet cleaning has clearly evolved into something else

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