Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Parliamentary-press
subs. phr. (tailors’).—See quot.
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1889. BARRÈRE and LELAND, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, s.v. PARLIAMENTARY PRESS … an old custom of claiming any iron, which happens to be in use, for the purpose of opening the collar seam.
