Air and Exercise (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Air and Exercise

He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart’s tail; or, as it is generally, though more vulgarly, expressed, at the cart’s a-se.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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