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61dogberry — Addressed to a policeman by a Shakespeare loving character in Opening Night, by Ngaio Marsh. One suspects that the normal policeman would be unlikely to see the point of this transferred name, which relates to the constable in Shakespeare’s… …
62first pair — Addressed to men who are about to make a parachute jump in Unconditional Surrender, by Evelyn Waugh. The men concerned are subsequently addressed No. 1, No. 2, etc …
63nip — Addressed to a person of Japanese ancestry, though not in polite conversation. The word is an abbreviation of ‘Nipponese’, which means Japanese. ‘Ya cute little fuckin Nip, ya’ is addressed to an American policeman named Tanaguchi in The… …
64soldier — Addressed usually to a soldier in uniform who does not have a special rank. ‘Come, my young soldier, put up your iron,’ says Sir Toby Belch to Sebastian, in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (4:ii). The term is used elsewhere in the plays, alone or… …
65third — Addressed by seamen to a third mate in Doctor at Sea, by Richard Gordon. The same officer is also addressed in a friendly way as ‘Three o’ …
66PETER, THE FIRST EPISTLE OF — addressed especially to Jewish Christians in certain churches of Asia Minor, the members of which were suffering persecution at the hands of their adversaries as evil doers; was written to exhort them to rebut the charge by a life of simple… …
67PETER, THE SECOND EPISTLE OF — addressed to all who anywhere bore the Christian name; appears to have been written not long before his death to counteract certain fatal forms of error, at once doctrinal and practical, that had already begun to creep into the Church, and… …
68James, epistle of — Addressed to a group in the Church, probably of Jewish background, and suffering poverty. It is a plea for good works, such as compassion (2:14–26) and honesty (4:11–12). It deprecates worldliness (Jas. 4:4) and obsequiousness to the well off… …
69came to the point — addressed the subject, arrived at the main point, arrived at the main issue …
70altos — Addressed to a group of choirboys in Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Male altos have singing voices in the highest range for men; female altos are in the lowest range for women. The term is typically one which would be used by a… …
