1859. Times, 20 July, p. 7, co. .3l The Leader of the House would have to go through that doleful operation called the massacre of the innocents, devoting to extinction a number of useful measures which there was not time to pass.
1860. Punch, xxxviii. 255. I brooded o'er my discontent, saying—The Notice-paper thins: Now that with early June begins the massacre of innocents.
1870. London Figaro, 6 August. So vigorously has the slaughter of the innocents been proceeding that the Appropriation Bill was read a first time in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
1871. Times, 'Leader' 9 May. The massacre of the innocents has begun.
1872. Saturday Review, 20th July. When the proposals of a member will stand the test of being expressed in a Bill, they are often of great value, and have an effect on legislation, and on the conduct of the Government, although they are massacred with hundreds of other innocents at the end of the Session.
1879. Graphic, 9th July, p. 50. Formerly . . . the massacre of the innocents was chiefly confined to measures which owed their existence rather to individual and sectional enthusiasm than to the deliberate wishes of the nation.
Innominables, subs. (obsolete).—Breeches;
trousers; inexpressibles.
For synonyms see Bags
and Kicks.
1834. Southey, The Doctor, p. 688. The lower part of his dress represented innominables and hose in one.
Inside, subs. (common).—A passenger
riding inside a vehicle. See
outside.
1816. Scott, Old Mortality, ii. A wheel carriage bearing eight insides and six outsides.
d. 1820. G. Canning, Loves of the Triangles, i. 178. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying six insides.
1889. Daily Telegraph, 5 Jan. The insides were terrified.
Adj. and adv. (colloquial).—Trustworthy; pertinent; in touch with; bottom (q.v.). To know the inside of everything = to be well informed.
1888. Daily Inter-Ocean. A secret service officer, who has just arrived from Washington on important business, claims to have inside information as to the facts in the case.
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 12 Nov., p. 6, col. 2. He saw everything and missed not the smallest incident or accident. The latter were few enough, but such as they were he was, so to speak, inside of them without a falter.
Inside of, subs. and adv. (colloquial).—Within the limit; in less time than.
1888. Missouri Republican, 22 Feb. He is very desperate, and inside of thirty days shot at four men.
1887. Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. Both animals had been killed inside of five minutes.
1888. Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, chap. xi. He knocked the seven senses out of him inside of three rounds.
1890. W. C. Russell, Ocean Tragedy, 74. Tain't to be done in the inside of a month.
To do an inside worry, verb. phr. (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.
To take the inside out of (a glass, a book &c.), verb. phr. (colloquial).—To empty; to gut (q.v.).
1843. W. T. Moncrieff, The Scamps of London, iii. 1. Haven't you taken the inside out of that quart of gatter yet?
To be on (or to have) the inside track, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be on the safe side; to be at a point of vantage; or (of a subject) to understand thoroughly.
