In for the plate, phr. (old).—Venereally infected.
For all there’s in it, phr. (common).—To the utmost capacity (of
persons and things). To play one’s hand for all there’s in it = to use
fair means or foul to attain an object.
1888. Roosevelt, Ranch Life. Cowboys must ride for all there is in
them, and spare neither their own nor their horses’ necks.
To get it in for one, verb. phr. (common).—To remember to one’s
disadvantage.
1864. Derby Day, p. 121. ‘Brentford!’ cried the tout. ‘That was a
bad job for you, guv’nor, I’ve got it in for you. I don’t forget if
I do look a fool.’
[For combinations see Altitudes; Arms of Morpheus; Bad Way; Blues;
Bottom of the Bag; Buff; Bunch; Cart; Click; Clover; Crack; Crook;
Cups; Dead Ernest; Difficulty; Hole; Jiffy; Jug; Kish; Know;
Lavender; Limbo; Liquor; Lurch; Patter; Pound; Print; Queer Street;
Rags; Running; Shape; Shell; Skiffle; Slash; State of Nature;
Straw; String; Suds; Sun; Swim; Tin-pot way; Town; Twinkling;
Water; Wind; Wrong Box, etc.]
In-and-in. To play at in-and-in, verb. phr. (old).—To copulate. For
synonyms see Greens and Ride. Also In-and-out (q.v.).
1635. Glapthorne, The Hollander, in Wks. (1874), i. 127. They are
sure fair gamesters ... especially at in-and-in.
1653. Brome, Five New Plays, 239. The Physitian thought to have
cured his patient (who has bin a notable gamester at In-and-in)
between my Lady’s legs.
1675. Cotton, Scoffer Scofft, in Works (1725), p. 192. What with
some Goddess he’d have bin. Playing, belike, at In-and-in.... For
so thy words seem to import.
1719. Durfey, (quoted) Pills etc., iv. 78. Their wives may play at
in-and-in, Cuckolds all-a-row.
In-and-out, subs. (colloquial).—The detail or intricacies of a matter;
generally in pl., e.g., To know all the ins-and-outs of a matter.
Adv. (racing).—1. Unequal; variable: applied to the performances of a
horse which runs well one day, and on another not.
1885. Referee, 26 April, p. 1, col. 2. Now and again in-and-out
running on the part of a horse subjects his owner to considerable
annoyance.
1888. Sportsman, 28 Nov. It is best if possible to overlook
in-and-out running, or variation of form.
To play at in-and-out, verb. phr. (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms
see Greens and Ride.
1620. Percy, Folio M.S., p. 93. ‘Walking in a Meadow Green’. Then
stifly thrust ... and play about at in-and-out.
Inch, verb. (old).—To encroach; to move slowly.
1690. B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Inching in, Encroaching upon.
1694–6. Dryden, Æneid, ix. With slow paces measures back the field,
And inches to the wall.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1868. Browning, Ring & Book, i. 118. Like so much cold steel inched
through the breast blade.
Incog, adv. (colloquial).—1. Unknown; in disguise. Also as subs. [An
abbreviation of incognito].
1690. B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Incog, for Incognito, a Man of
Character or Quality concealed or in disguise.
1711. Spectator, No. 41, 17 April, p. 69 (Morley). So many Ladies,
when they first lay it (painting) down, incog in their own faces.
1739. Gray, Letters, No. xxiv, Vol. 1, p. 49 (1819). He passes
incog without the walls.
1777. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 3. What! turn inquisitor,
and sake evidence incog.
1795. Burns, Poems. ‘Address to the De’il.’ Then you, ye auld
sneck-drawing dog, Ye cam to Paradise incog.
1812. Edinburgh Review, xx. p. 113. He travels incog to his
father’s two estates.
1819. Moore, From the Diary of a Politician. Incog he (the king)
was travelling about.
1826. Disraeli, Vivian Grey, Bk. v, ch. v, p. 187 (1881). Whose
well-curled black hair, diamond pin, and frogged coat hinted at the
magnifico incog.
1828–45. Hood, Poems, (1846) i. 215. A Foreign Count who came
incog, Not under a cloud, but under a fog.
1836. Mahoney, Father Prout, i. 319. O the vile wretch! the naughty
dog! He’s surely Lucifer incog.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, ii. 183. ‘Don’t call me by my name here,
please Florac, I am here incog.’