By Dickens’ Door-Knocker: Victorian Slang You Should Be Using
By Crime HQ
December 20, 2013So many criminally useful terms with olde-tymey flair! Back Slang It: Thieves used this term to indicate that they wanted “to go out the back way.” Batty-Fang: Low London phrase meaning “to thrash thoroughly,” possibly from the French battre a fin. Don't Sell Me a Dog: Popular until 1870, this phrase meant “Don’t lie to…