nevver
- Turn over the perch (1594)
- Yield the crow a pudding (1599)
- Put to bed with a shovel (1707)
- Put into one’s cool crepe (1725)
- Slip one’s wind (1772)
- Go out with a wooden habeas (1785)
- Hop the twig (1797)
- Lose the number of one’s mess (1814)
- Booked by the Gravesend bus (1838)
- Measure over the counter (1841)
- Cut the painter (1850)
- Ride old Charon’s Ferry-boat (1854)
- Hand in one’s checks (1857)
- Take a blinder (1859)
- Lay down one’s knife and fork (1864)
- Make a die of it (1866)
- Go up Green River (1872)
- Stick one’s spoon in the wall (1873)
- Climb the golden staircase (1883)
- Deal one’s final lay-out (1887)
- Push clouds (1887)
- Climb the greasy pole (1890)
- Pull the string (of the shower bath) (1893)
- Do a seven (1894)
- Snuff one’s glim (1900)
- Throw in one’s toe (1901)
- Take the count (1902)
- Shoot one’s star (1903)
- Toss in one’s agate (1906)
- Chuck up one’s bunch of fives (1909)
- Go trumpet cleaning (1915)
- Become a landowner (1916)
- Answer the last roll call (1936)
- Hand in one’s dinner pail (1937)
- Climb the six foot ladder (1950)







