If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed.
Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers, Ch. 33
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7 1812-1870), English novelist, dramatist; He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., A Christmas Carol, 1843 & Tale of Two Cities, 1859.