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NOVELISTS > novelist, dramatist > Charles Dickens
Battledore and shuttlecock's...
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Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant.
Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers, Ch. 20
-- 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.