(UK, slang, obsolete) Announced on having successfully deceived somebody.

Homeless. / Working as a prostitute.

(law) Before the commission of a crime. / Assumed prior to factual study; ipso facto true, good, or correct; a priori

(UK, idiomatic, slang, obsolete) To follow up something good with something inferior.

Synonym of haul someone over the coals

Alternative form of in the twinkling of a bedstaff

Used to present an antecedent to a claim. / Used to refer to a situation under discussion.

To help in one way but proceed to harm in another.

A showdown between people of high intellect.

(nautical, slang) Of an officer: having risen from the grade of an ordinary seaman, whose original position in the vessel was forward, before the mast.