subs. phr. (common).—The stomach: see BREAD-ROOM.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Bread-room; dumpling-depôt; victualling-office; porridge-bowl.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Panetière (cf. pantière = the mouth):panier au pain (a literal translation); jabot: se remplir le jabot = to have a ‘blow out’): halle aux croûtes = Crust Hall; also, a baker’s shop; place d’armes; soute au pain.
1753. FOOTE, The Englishman in Paris, I. Another came up to second him, but I let drive at the Mark, made the Soup-Maigre rumble in his BREAD-BASKET, and laid him sprawling.
1772. BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 165.
| Then threw his stick, which with a thump | |
| On his BREAD-BASKET hit him plump. |
1819. T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, 18.
| Neat milling this Round—what with clouts on the nob, | |
| Home hits in the BREAD-BASKET, clicks in the gob. |
1821. The Fancy, I. 255. In the fourth round he came in all abroad, and got a doubler in the BREAD-BASKET.
1821. W. T. MONCRIEFF, Tom and Jerry, iii., 1. Jerry. Now, doctor, take care of your BREAD-BASKET—eyes right, look to your napper.
1849. C. KINGSLEY, Alton Locke, xxxiii. A heavy blow was struck on the panel from the inside, and the point of a sharp instrument driven right through, close to my knees, with the exclamation, ‘What do you think o’ that now in a policeman’s BREAD-BASKET?’
1856. C. READE, It Is Never Too Late to Mend, lxx. When you can’t fill the BREAD-BASKET, shut it. Go to sleep till the Southern Cross comes out again.
1876. C. H. WALL, trans. Molière, I., 194. And get as a reward an ugly piece of cold steel right through my BREAD-BASKET.
