1867 All Year Round, 13 July, 55. When hands are being sacked.
1895. Standard, 18 Ap., 1, 1. Thus giving the sack arose from the fact that masters or mistresses gave dismissed servants a rough bag in which to pack up their belongings, in order to expedite their departure.
1900. Kipling, Stalky & Co., 10. You must sack your keeper. He's not fit to live in the same country with a God-fearing fox.
Sacrifice, subs. (Trade Cant).—The
surrender, or loss of profit:
as verb = to sell regardless of cost.
1844. Dickens, Chimes, ii. It's patterns were last year's and going at a sacrifice.
Sad, adj. and adv. (colloquial).—Mischievous;
troublesome; of
little account; merry; fast: as a
sad dog = (1) 'a wicked debauched
fellow' (Grose), and (2)
a playful reproach.
1706. Farquhar, Recruiting Officer, iii. 2. Syl. . . . you are an ignorant, pretending, impudent coxcomb. Braz. Ay, ay, a sad dog.
1713. Swift, Stella [Oliphant, New Eng., ii. 150. The word sad is much used; a man is a sad dog; sour grapes are sad things].
1713. Steele, Spectator, No. 448. Then does he begin to call himself the saddest fellow, in disappointing so many places.
1726. Vanbrugh, Provoked Husband, iii. 1. When a sad wrong word is rising just to one's tongue's end, I give a great gulp, and swallow it.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Random, xvi I suppose you think me a sad dog. . . . I . . . confess that appearances are against me.
1759. Goldsmith, Bee, No. 2. You have always been a sad dog—you'll never come to good, you'll never be rich.
1771. Mackenzie, Man of Feeling, xiv. I have been told as how London is a sad place.
1836. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, 141. Mr. Tones used to poke him in the ribs, and tell him he had been a sad dog in his time.
Saddle, subs. (venery).—1. The
female pudendum: see Monosyllable:
cf. Ride. Hence,
in the saddle = mounted.
1611. Chapman, May-day, iii. 2. Mine uncle Lorenzo's maid, Rose . . . he will needs persuade me her old master keeps her for his own saddle.
1621. Burton, Anat. Melan., III. III. i. 2. The adulterer sleeping now was riding on his master's saddle.
d. 1704. Brown, Works, ii. 312. Damme, if I car'd a rush who rode in my saddle.
2. theatrical).—See quot.
1781. Parker, View of Society, I. 54. His conscience carried him to extort two guineas on each person's benefit by way of Saddle (which among theatrical people is an additional charge upon the benefits).
Phrases.—To put the saddle on the right horse = (1) to blame (or praise) where justly due, and (2) to cast a burden where best borne; to suit one as a saddle suits a sow = to become ill; to be incongruous: to saddle a market (Amer. Stock Exchange) = to foist a stock on the market; to saddle one with a thing = to impose a thing on, to constrain to accept an unwelcome gift; 'He has a saddle to fit every horse' = 'He has a salve (or remedy) for every sore (or mishap)'; to saddle the spit = to give a dinner or supper (Grose); to saddle one's nose = to wear spectacles (Grose); to saddle a place (or pension) = 'to oblige the owner to pay a certain portion of his income to someone nominated by the donor' (Grose); saddle-leather = the skin of the posteriors; saddle-sick = galled by riding (Grose).
