Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Secret
phr. (old).—LET INTO THE SECRET: ‘When one is drawn in at Horse-racing, Cock-fighting, Bowling, and other Sports or Games, and Bit.’ (B. E. and GROSE.)
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IN THE GRAND SECRET, phr. (colloquial).—Dead (GROSE).
