and no flies

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and no flies

  1. (UK, slang, archaic) Synonym of and no mistake
    • 1865, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 513:
      […] seized by Mr. Stompff, who, scarcely waiting to carry him out of earshot, began, “Well! you've done it up brown this time, my man, and no flies! Your pictures have woke 'em up. They're talking of nothing else. […]

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References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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