"CUSHY" AND "TOP HOLE"
POPULAR SIANG IN EVERYDAY SPEECH. There is more alang tolked to-day, probably, than at any previous time in onr history. AVer-time conditions and the mixture of races have familiarised us Ti-ith many allusive phrases which art Dew to this generation. "Nnpoo." the British, soldier's rendering of "II n'yen a plus," roughly interpreted in England slang hs "Nothing doing," was one of the t-aTliest; of the topical phrases to arise , out of war associations. "Camouflage" rnd "Barrage" have como to stay. It is suggested by a close observer that in England somo of the most overworked pieces of modern slang are these , :
Over the .top (a Perfectly topping:. modern equivalent Dug-o«ls. of "talcing the Swinging the lend. plunge"). Cushy, and Top-hole. Old thing. Lees obvious in its application is tho expression (said to be obtaining some currency) "Be Marly." It is understood to havo originated in a "'eference to tho Marylebono Cricket Club, and to mean "Play the game." But. "This way for the early door," th« cry to which, according to "Truth," British soldiers make a ?reat advance, dufem'B not to b« forgotten. ■"
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 197, 9 May 1918, Page 8
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