en noiradv.
On the black side.
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1860 E. Eden Semi-attached Couple II. iii. 40 Perhaps I see things en noir today.
1875En noir [see en beau adv.]. 1905 Mrs. H. Ward Marriage of William Ashe ii. xi. 197 She must know that everything she does is seen there en noir.
1912 A. Lang Shakespeare, Bacon & Great Unknown xiii. 282 No wonder that he turned to tragedy..and saw life en noir.
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adv.1860- to get one's head down
- to get one's head handed to one
- to get one's head out of one's arse
- to get one's head out of one's ass
- to get one's head together
- to get one's heart's syth of
- to get one's hooks into
- to get one's hooks on
- to get one's ice legs
- to get one's irish up
- to get one's jacket
- to get one's jollies
- to get one's jotters
- to get one's kit off
- to get one's knickers in a twist
- to get one's laughing gear around something
- to get one's leave
- to get one's leg over
- to get one's leg over the harrows
- to get one's licks
- to get one's living
- to get one's load
- to get one's lowing laid
- to get one's lug in one's loof
- to get one's mad up