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the full shilling

noun

Definitions

  1. In control of one's mental faculties

    In control of one's mental faculties; sane; all there.

    • It served her well, as her husband Bill, a small, quiet man, sustained shell-shock in the war and although pleasant, was not the full shilling. Whenever he wandered over to me to start a conversation I would always feel very uncomfortable.
    • She shook her head, sighing deeply. 'There are times when I wonder is he the full shilling at all?[…]

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for the full shilling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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