Wednesday, August 15, 2018

dustman

dustman (plural dustmen)
  1. (Britain) A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
    • Lonnie Donegan, My Old Man's A Dustman
      Oh, my old man's a dustman
      He wears a dustman’s hat
      He wears cor-blimey trousers
      And he lives in a council flat.
       
       
       

talk nineteen to the dozen

  to speak rapidly and without stopping