ballyrag

1 I suppose them Barneys up on Fifth Street will every one of them be strutting and ballyragging 'round with gewgaws, and fixings, and such like things.

2 Lady Bellingdown, coming forward in the hall to meet them, overheard: "Is he ballyragging you again, dear?" she asked, while Nina lifted her veil for the impending greeting.

3 I'm old enough not to be bossed and ballyragged by you two women!

4 I did; but as he seen me coming out of the other place, he only ballyragged me, and said, 'We only discount for them as has letters of credit on us.'

5 They set to work, and by dint of much discussing, disagreeing, ballyragging and bulldozing each other, they did make a fair start.

6 Only don't think I want to ballyrag about the money.

7 I hope this will be a lesson to you, Doyle, and will teach you not to ballyrag your customers in future.

8 I hate arguing with archdeacons; but of course we can't have Lalage put into a witness box and ballyragged by archbishops and people of that kind, and she'd be the only available witness.

9 I jolly well ballyragged Joseph Antony Kinsella until he opened his last cask of illicit whisky.

10 I wouldn't have had an archbishop ballyragging me and ordering me about.

11 He has already suffered enough and any one with such a ballyragging, unreasonable, unladylike, and headstrong wife deserves our sympathy.

12 Well, she hunted about everywhere, ballyragging Jack by side and by seam, Jack lying a'most stifled inside the churn, and the poor maid—or young woman rather—standing at the door crying her eyes out.

13 I begin to sympathize with the boss, because I know what he felt when I ballyragged him for copy.

14 What do you mean by assaulting and ballyragging me in this way?

15 You get a chap like Norris, who, when he loses his hair, has got just about as much tact as a rhinoceros, going and ballyragging the man, and no wonder he won't say anything.

16 He said afterwards that it was a bit too thick on poor old Leonora to be ballyragged any more.

1 骂

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2 辱骂

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3 烦扰

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