† grimleȝcn.
Obsolete. rare.
Grimness, cruelty.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4719 Þiss mahhte tredeþþ unnderr fot All grimmeleȝȝc. & braþþe.
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n.c1175- you can go to the dickens
- you can have
- you can have someone
- you can have something
- you can keep
- you can keep something
- you can quote me
- you can say that again
- you can search me
- you can stick it up your bum
- you can stick it up your etc bum
- you can stick it up your her bum
- you can stick it up your his bum
- you can take a person out of ——, but you can't take —— out of a person
- you can take out of ——, but you can't take —— out of
- you can take out of ——, but you can't take —— out of a person
- you can'it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks
- you can'it's hard to keep a good man down
- you can't catch an old bird with chaff
- you can't do that there 'ere
- you can't eat gold
- you can't get the staff these days
- you can't go home again
- you can't have everything
- you can't have your cake and eat it too