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in theatrical slang, means telling phrases and speeches, as, “My part is full of ‘coaling lines.ʹ” Coal being money, means profit, whence coaling. (See p. 265, To post the Coal …)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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