A first-rate. One that would dead-beat. (See Mortmain.)
“First-rate work it was too; he was always a dead hand at splitting.”—Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms, xv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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