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Meet the Only NYC Tailor on Wheels
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Took a taxi tonight, and the driver absolutely insisted on giving me the journey for free, as it was his last ever job before retirement, and tradition is they don't charge for their first ever and last ever journey.
He began driving in 1965.
Thank you, Mike. Best wishes!
a bobby (another nickname, based on the name of Sir Robert Peel, the nineteenth-century Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police)
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
fullscrew: a full Corporal in the Army. grunt: an infantryman. mod plod: a nickname for an officer in the Ministry of Defence Police. club swinger: the PE trainer. fang farrier: a dentist. pusser’s issue: a label for any equipment issued by the Service, a corruption of the word ‘purser’. Anything done unimaginatively or ‘by the book’ is done in a p
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The Chief’s quarters on board a sub are known as the Goat Locker, said to date back to the days when livestock were carried on board and when one particular goat became the mascot on the US sub New York
