1648. A Brown Dozen of Drunkards. . . . By one that hath drunk at St. Patrick's Well [Title].
1662. Fuller, Worthies (London), i. 65. Nicholas Heath . . . noted for one of Saint Anthonie's Pigs therein (so were the Scholars of that school [City of London] commonly called, as those of St. Paul, Paul's Pigeons).
1749. Smollett, Gil Blas [Routledge], 42. That saint of the sauce-*pan . . . leaving him . . . to . . . his usual nap after dinner, we took away, and demolished the remainder with appetites worthy of our master. Ibid., Gil Blas (1812), II. viii. Comedians . . . do not travel a-foot, and dine with St. Anthony.
1791. Lackington, Letter, iii. [Life, 1803]. While he was keeping Saint Monday, I was with boys of my own age, fighting, cudgel-playing, wrestling, &c.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, 5. Flash, my young friend, or slang, as others call it, is the classical language of the Holy Land; in other words, St. Giles's Greek.
1874. Eng. Mechanic [Davies]. The familiar shower of shooting stars [9th to 11th Aug.] known of old as St. Laurence's tears, but now termed—rather more scientifically—the Perseides, from the point in the heavens whence they appear to radiate.
1882. Riddell, Weird Stories, The Open Door. We were always counting the weeks to next St. Lubbock's Day.
1884. D. News, 22 July, 5, 3. It was evident that universal homage was being paid to Saint Monday. Working London proclaimed a general holiday.
1902. Pall Mall Gazette, 26 July, 3, 1. It [Coronation day] will be the most memorable Bank Holiday that has yet figured in the annals of St. John Lubbock.
Sake. For sake's sake (any
sake, goodness sake, &c.), phr.
(colloquial).—A strong appeal.
For old sake's sake = for
'auld lang syne.'
1670. Howard, Committee, iii. Run after him, and save the poor fellow for sake's sake.
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, I. iii. Us be cum to pay 'e a visit . . . for old sake's sake.
1863. Kingsley, Water Babies. Yet for old sake's sake she is still, dears, The prettiest doll in the world.
Sal, subs. (old colloquial).—1.
Salivation; in a high sal =
'in the pickling tub' (Grose).
2. (theatrical).—Salary.
1885. Household Words, 29 August, 350. I say that part of this money shall be shared among us as sals, and some of the remainder shall be used for mounting the guv'nor's panto.
Salad, subs. (nautical).—1. See
quot.
1877. Notes & Queries, 5 S., viii. 269. When an officer on board ship is wakened and fails to obey the summons, but has another nap, it is called taking a salad.
2. (colloquial).—A lettuce.
Salad-days (or stage), subs. phr.
(colloquial).—The days of youthful
simplicity; inexperience.
1608. Shakspeare, Ant. and Cleop., i. 5, 73. My salad days, When I was green in judgement.
1892. Anstey, Voces Populi, 'At a Parisian Café Chantant,' 85. The diners in the gallery at the back have passed the salad stage.
1893. Chambers's Jour., 25 Feb., 125. Having in his salad days made trial of a cheap cigar, the result somehow satisfied him that tobacco was not in his line.
Salamander, subs. (colloquial).—1.
Anything fire-proof, and (2) a
fire-eating juggler (circus).
1886. Besant, Children of Gibeon, I. vi. We ain't a show. Lotty ain't a clown; I ain't a jumping-horse; Liz ain't a Salamander.
Sale. House of Sale, subs. phr.
(old).—See quot. and Nanny-house.
1596. Shakspeare, Hamlet, ii. 1, 60. I saw him enter such a house of sale, Videlicet, a brothel.
See Wash-sale.
