Its thief is suave, very well-dressed in upper class clothes, and passing for a gentleman, in the Rogue manner. The story is also more light-hearted than many of the other tales. The finale has the crook coming up with a mildly ingenious scheme for a robbery. ...
Butchers- To have a butchers at something is to have a look. This is a cockney rhyming slang word that has become common. The reason "butchers" means a look even though it doesn't rhyme is because it is short for "butchers hook" and "hook" of course, does rhyme. C of E- The Ch...
People usually do this at aspecial time of the year, such as Christmas. This is9.old British custom.Some people think the word “tip" comes from a slangword used by 10.( thief) a long time ago inBritain. Then, “tip" meant “to pass from one to another". 相关知识点: ...
The thick Scottish accents could use subtitles (and a slang dictionary), and of course every scene is grim, grim, grim. But Carlyle has star power, no doubt about it. Lord of Misrule (11/96) BBC TV movie with Richard Wilson as a retired Lord Protectorate who decides to sell all ...