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"massacre of the innocents" Definition

  1. when the leader of the House of Commons goes through the doleful operation of devoting to extinction a number of useful measures at the end of the session, for want of time to pass them. _Vide Times_, 20th July, 1859: Mr. C. Foster, on altering the time of the legislative sessions.—_Parliamentary Slang._

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Position in the dictionary: 2143 of 4022 slang words.
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