Tag: Theatre

  • ARTFUL FOXES AND BUTTER CHURNS, March 2025

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    T.G. Campbell
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    The Slang and Phrases of C19th Theatres & Music Halls In the nineteenth century, as now, slang and peculiar phrases could be heard in all manner of establishments and echelons of society. The music halls and theatres were no different. They, like the pugilists, had their own brand of (often) non-sensical terms to refer to the…