Card game of German origin.
Sinònims
Examples for "old maid"
Examples for "old maid"
1They began almost to suspect the probity of the poor old maid.
2She will not be the old maid of the family after all.
3Compared to that, being an old maid looks mighty good, believe me.
4There was no love lost between the old maid and her relatives.
5The chevalier and the old maid, believing themselves alone, were talking aloud.
1If black Peter get drowned, easily find better man to take him place.
2After a while the carousing bandits called for what they called " Black Peter."
3I had lost my hold on Black Peter and was stranded in London without a shilling.
4They played beggar-my-neighbor and Black Peter.
5A celebration by the Dutch Society of the feast of Black Peter in December has upset fellow students.
6VI.-TheAdventure of Black Peter.
7Is he the man who hobnobbed in rum and water with Black Peter in the dead of the night?
8Anyhow, I'd as soon die with a rope round my neck as with Black Peter's knife in my heart.
9Black Peter, a portmanteau.
10He leaves the magnificent society of Jack Armstrong, and Black Peter, and Red Indians, to mix with the commonplace citizens of London-asa pastrycook!
11"But I say, grandmother, you're Black Peter!"
Translations for black peter