ABSTRACT
Being divided they lost their cause. clean heels, light meals (This refers to the superiority of clay land over sand or chalk
land for milk etc.) gang back to pasture [Sc Cum] Deteriorate. hard lines! [1824] Bad luck! (The exact size of an allotment of land-with no extra-
was marked out by lines. It is also possible that the phrase is nautical in origin.) it would take an acre to keep a peewit Of poor ground. tuiffit-land [NCy 1829] (As above.) no man’s land [1719] An area of knowledge or organisation where a limbo exists for
which no one accepts responsibility; in wartime the ground between two armies which is still being or still remains to be fought over.
