Samson and Abel

The Slang Dictionary Etymological Historical and Anecdotal · 1913 · p. 26
a group of wrestlers in the centre of Brasenose quadrangle. Some said it represented Samson killing a Philistine; others Cain killing Abel. So the matter was compromised as above.— Oxford University. Sandwich , a human advertising medium, placed between two boards strapped, one on his breast the other on his shoulders. A “toad in the hole” is the term applied to the same individual when his person is confined by a four-sided box. A gentleman with a lady on each arm is sometimes called a SANDWICH . The French phrase for this kind of SANDWICH , l’âne à deux pannières , is expre ive. Sanguinary James , a raw sheep’s-head. See bloody Jemmy .
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