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  • trust no mistake
    [cf. Car, trust take a chance DJE; cf. Gul. "Trust no mistakes; when a bush shakes, tear out" (Work 1919:442);
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  • trust
    [Atlantic; cf. OED, to supply (goods) to a person on credit obs.→1775; Scots, to buy on credit CSD] v. 1.
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  • truppence hazard
    See THREEPENCE LIZARD.
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  • trumpet flower
    [from its shape] n. the yellow elder, Stenolobium stans: 1731 (Catesby 65). 1920 Trumpet flower. . .Tecoma stans (Britton 397).
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  • true-true
     [Car.; cf. Sra. troe-troe indeed WST; also Gul. (Gonzales 1924:217); by reduplication of true] adj. genuine: 1969 It ain't a
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  • true: too true to be a lie
    phr. so typical that it must be true. <Nassau>
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  • truck out
    [cf. OED truck to trade, barter] v. phr. to spend lavishly. <Adelaide, Mayag.>
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  • truck
    [cf. OED tuck to feed heartily or greedily, also OED truck odds and ends; things of little value] v. 1.
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  • trouble
    adj. [W Car.; "a trouble time" DM] difficult.  -n. have trouble on your head [Car.] - phr. to have serious
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  • tropic
    /trówpik/ [cf. OED tropic bird idem] n. the white-tailed tropic bird, Phaethon lepturus: 1731 The Tropick Bird (Catesby II 114).
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