Difference between revisions of "Broadest way"
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* '''Through streets broad and narrow:''' a line from the popular Dublin street ballad ''[[Cockles and Mussels]]'' | * '''Through streets broad and narrow:''' a line from the popular Dublin street ballad ''[[Cockles and Mussels]]'' | ||
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| + | * '''broad:''' slang for a woman (especially a fast woman) | ||
[[Category: Songs and lyrics]] | [[Category: Songs and lyrics]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:27, 1 June 2019
- Broadway: a street in New York → supposedly built by Irish labourers like Tim Finnegan
- Bygmester Finnegan ... lived in the broadest way: (song) Finnegan's Wake: "Tim Finnegan lived in Walker Street"
- broad: liberal minded; immoral
- Through streets broad and narrow: a line from the popular Dublin street ballad Cockles and Mussels
- broad: slang for a woman (especially a fast woman)
