or little friend, subs.—The menstrual flux or DOMESTIC AFFLICTIONS (q.v.), whose appearance is sometimes announced by the formula ‘My little friend has come.’ Conventionalisms are queer; poorly; changes (Irish); ‘the Captain’s at home’ (GROSE). See FLAG.

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  TO GO AND SEE A SICK FRIEND, verb. phr. (venery).—To go on the loose. See GREENS.

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