Threadneedle St Flashcards
as black as Newgate’s knocker
As black as Hades
To be born within the sounds of Bow Bells
Cockney
The kings life is drawing peacefully to a close.
Lord Dawson, 1936.
To be fiddling while Rome burns
To occupy oneself with unimportant matters and neglect priorities during a crisis
Grinning like a Cheshire Cat
Well
Khyber pass
Arse 1986 Carry On
To consign to Limbo
To be wiped out from other’s memory
Sloane Rangers
1970s Lady Diana Spencer
To carry the world before one with smth
To be success in smth
To feel for all the world as if
Just like
A Norfolk dumpling
Daft
To see Naples and die
Naples
An Olympian detachment
An impersonal and unemotional view of human conflict
To fall down like the walls of Jericho
DZHErikow
To carry coals to Newcastle
To do something completely unnecessary
