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- adjective Cockney rhyming slang
Drunk ,pissed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“You named yourself after a character in an old novel called Oliver Twist—a novel you hated when you read it, but you liked the character of Fagin, and you hate the fact that your name is Julius Antoine Dale.”
STARCRAFT GHOST NOVA KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO 2006
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She’s an urchin in Cockney, Oliver Twist himself, eyes mock-meek beneath a fringe of hair.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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She’s an urchin in Cockney, Oliver Twist himself, eyes mock-meek beneath a fringe of hair.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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Instead, Bumble was a character penned by Charles Dickens in "Oliver Twist," who was upset to learn that the law would suppose that Bumble's wife obeyed him in all things.
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Harwood recently worked on an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist with director Roman Polanski.
Smiley starts a row over reluctance to commission original scripts 2011
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Kids like Oliver Twist were punished in ways designed to break them; poor people convicted of relatively minor offenses were transported to Australia, or given publicly humiliating forms of punishment; police had unchecked and violent power over the poor.
Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011
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Their plight inspired social reformers — including a neighbor, Charles Dickens, who may have used the building as inspiration for his novel Oliver Twist.
Please, sir, save workhouse tied to 'Oliver Twist,' Britain asked 2011
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Kids like Oliver Twist were punished in ways designed to break them; poor people convicted of relatively minor offenses were transported to Australia, or given publicly humiliating forms of punishment; police had unchecked and violent power over the poor.
Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011
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It's a setting known to millions from Oliver Twist, in which the workhouse hero Oliver, "desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery" tremblingly holds out his bowl and says "Please, sir, I want some more."
Please, sir, save workhouse tied to 'Oliver Twist,' Britain asked 2011
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Alongside Oliver Twist, he is the most celebrated orphan in world literature.
How Harry Saved Reading Norman Lebrecht 2011
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