Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Pride-and-pockets
subs. phr. (common).—See quot.
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1893. P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, xiii. The place, too, was what we call ‘shabby genteel’—a lot of retired tradesmen and half-pay officers … PRIDE-AND-POCKETS as we called them.
