Fry, verb (common).—To translate into plain English. Cf., boil down.
1881. Jas. Payn, Grape from a Thorn, ch. xxx. ‘I shall repose the greatest confidence in you, my dear girl, which one human being can entrust to another,’ was one of its sentences, which, when it came ‘to be fried,’ meant that she should delegate to her the duties of combing Fido and cutting her canary’s claws.
Go and fry your face, phr. (common).—A retort expressive of incredulity, derision, or contempt.
Frying-pan. To jump from the frying-pan into the fire, verb. phr. (common).—To go from bad to worse. Cf., ‘from the smoke into the smother’ (As You Like it, i., 2.). Fr., tomber de la poêle dans la braise.
1684. Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II. Some, though they shun the frying-pan, do leap into the fire.
To Fry the Pewter, verb. phr. (thieves’).—To melt down pewter measures.
F Sharp, subs. phr. (common).—A flea; cf., B flat.
Fuant, subs. (old).—Excrement.—B. E. Dict. of the Canting Crew.
Fub, verb. (old).—To cheat; to steal; to put off with false excuses. Also Fubbery = cheating, stealing, deception. [[80]]
1598. Shakspeare, 2 Henry IV., II., 1. I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have been fubbed off, and fubbed off from this day to that day.