Examples
“I visualized the lodger, a scrawny individual in a collar a size too large; a hairy, dirty, rag and bone man who ate in the little cookshop along the high street, and slept in Mrs. Cockerton’s little back shed, paying a few shillings a week for rent.”
The Rising of the Moon
““We ought to get that, whatever it was,” said Keith, when the rag and bone man had gone across the lock and was trudging along the towing-path towards the Leys.”
The Rising of the Moon
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
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