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- noun UK A
butcher 'sshop - noun Cockney rhyming slang, Australian rhyming slang A
look (short form ofbutcher's hook )
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Examples
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But don't think the butcher's bill is paid for by all this welfare-state generosity.
Ian Fletcher: Economists Shocked, Shocked: We Really Are Losing Jobs to China! Ian Fletcher 2011
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And my personal favourite, St. Joseph above a butcher's:
Catholic Bamberg: House Shrines, Wayside Crosses and Easter Wells 2009
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Helen Kay went to the butcher's stall at Reading market, and found they had a sense of humour.
Simon Hoggart's week: A tweet in store – Mrs Farnsbarns and the milkman 2011
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But don't think the butcher's bill is paid for by all this welfare-state generosity.
Ian Fletcher: Economists Shocked, Shocked: We Really Are Losing Jobs to China! Ian Fletcher 2011
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It is nice to live next to a HEB where they sell it loose behind the butcher's counter.
Making my own Mexican chorizo | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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"Knives" tells of a homely butcher's assistant, a devoted reader of love stories, who falls for a good-looking predator, a traveling salesman, with devastating consequences for each of them.
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"No one in France can compare his meat to mine," he said recently, sporting his organic-cotton butcher's apron.
In Paris, One Butcher Is a Cut Above the Rest Marion Issard 2012
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Queuing wasn't an unusual custom in those days – for cinema matinees, or the butcher's – but at the Festival of Britain the waiting was formidable.
My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack 2011
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An unabashed romantic in a guild that, like the butcher's union, isn't supposed to sample the marbled inventory that it handles on the job, Dameron tried to marry the sentimental products of Tin Pan Alley with the hard-edged experiments of be-bop.
Madd About Tadd Con Chapman 2011
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But don't think the butcher's bill is paid for by all this welfare-state generosity.
Ian Fletcher: Economists Shocked, Shocked: We Really Are Losing Jobs to China! Ian Fletcher 2011
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