Londoners of the past had plenty of slang words and phrases that have since fallen out of use. Quite a few of them are pretty interesting, and you could see them being used even today. Take, for example 'to manouevre the apostles’. i.e. to rob Peter to pay Paul (borrow money from one person to pay another). Or the, perhaps less modern, phrase, 'he has had air and exercise', meaning 'he has been whipped at the cart's tail'. This video goes through 40 such slang words and phrases current in London at the end of the 17th century.
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A New Dictionary of Terms, Ancient and Modern, of the Canting Crew:
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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue:
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Creative Minds from bensound.com
Forty slang words and phrases from 17th century London
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