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ball and chain
noun
a man’s wife US, 1921- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 21, 1945
- What Ball and Chain could take that treatment for long? — Whisper Magazine, p. 37, May 1950: Anything for a Divorce
- — Complete CB Slang Dictionary, 1976
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 151, 1981
- — Multicultural Management Program Fellows, Dictionary of Cautionary Words and Phrases, 1989
- — Dictionary of Cautionary Words and Phrases, 1989: “Multicultural Management Program Fellows”
- [G]ot to make some calls. Check on the ball and chain[.] — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 53, 1997
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