![]() ![]() n.p.: I guyed, but the reeler he gave me hot beef / And a scuff came about me and hollered.Ĭ. ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. He followed, giving me hot beef (calling ‘Stop thief’). (London) XL 506: I gave a twist round and gave him a push and guyed. 3/3: A victim is styled a ‘bloke’ ‘the bloke cried beef’ signifies ‘the victim cried police’. Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 40/2: The fellow must be ‘neddied,’ no matter who he is, and that before he can give ‘beef’ too. de la Bédollière Londres et les Anglais 313/1: to cry beef, donner l’alarme. Synonyms:complaint, protest, grievance, grumble, rant, murmur, remonstrance, moan, hue and cry, gripe. All idioms have been editorially reviewed, and submitted idioms may have been edited for correctness and completeness. Nowadays, if you do something without hue and cry, you do it discreetly and without drawing attention. Matsell Vocabulum 28: ‘Frisk the dummy of the screens, ding it and bolt they are crying out beef,’ take out the money and throw the pocket-book away run, they are crying, ‘stop thief!’.Į. Meaning: Hue and cry is an expression that used to mean all the people who joined in chasing a criminal or villain. Hush money, money paid to keep someone quiet, The politician offered hush. 333: We many times got beef, and were several times nigh being grabbed. The citizens made a hue and cry against the governments decision to raise taxes. 4/4: The policeman would not swear that the boy did not cry ‘Hot beef’ and that he might not have mistaken it for a cry of ‘Stop thief’. Lytton Pelham III 295: ‘What ho, my kiddy,’ cried Job, ‘don’t be glimflashy why you’d cry beef on a blater.’. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm. Balatronicum n.p.: Beef, to cry beef ( cant) to give the alarm. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Beef, to cry beef ( cant) to give the alarm. n.p.: beef to alarm, as To cry Beef upon us they have discover’d us, and are in Pursuit of us. To give the alarm, to call a hue and cry thus get beef, to be pursued by a hue and cry. Morrison Child of the Jago (1982) 88: It was now that he first experienced ‘hot beef’ - which is the Jago idiom denoting the plight of one harried by the cry ‘Stop thief’. n.p.: ‘While there heard the cry of “beef” three times’.Ī. Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 76/2: Wattie ‘tumbled’ the ‘moll ’ ‘beef’ was given and half a dozen voices joined in the cry of ‘haud the keely’ (thief). 8/3: ‘I have nailed a “souper” from a “rattler” (railway carriage) and got “hot beef”’. 322/3: HOT BEEF AND THIE NEW POLICE.- Four urchins charged with exciting the terror and alarm of his Majesty’s liege subjects by a simultaneous cry of ‘Stop thief!’. 8: Beef - discovery of persons, an alarm or pursuit. (2003) 241: My Lord of Barrimore go charge to the Beefe]. Mahoney ‘A Kind of Ballad’ in Carpenter Verse in English from Tudor & Stuart Eng. raise a hue and make a lot of noise about an issue to draw peoples attention Choose the right answer: shout cry tears scream scroll down for the.
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