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Abigail (maid)
Alice band
Aunt Sally
Belcher (handkerchief or chain)
Big Bertha (gun)
Bloody Mary
Blucher (man’s lace-up ankle boot)
Boswell (follower and chronicler of famous person)
Brown Betty (teapot)
Busy Lizzie (plant)
Calamity Jane
Cardigan
Caspar Milquetoast
Cassandra (prophetess: she was always right, but no one would listen)
Champagne Charlie
Dundreary whiskers
every Tom, Dick and Harry
flash Harry
good-time Charlie
Hebe (waitress)
Honest John
Hooray Henry
Jack of All Trades
Jeremiah (prophet always predicting doom)
John
Johnny
Johnny Come Lately
Johnny Foreigner
Juliet balcony
keeping up with the Joneses
Little Orphan Annie
long Johns (pants)
Lothario
Louis heel
Lucky Jim
Mae West
Mao collar
Mary Jane (shoe)
Moaning Minnie (shell)
Mother Hubbard (dress)
Negative Nancy
Nehru collar
Nervous Nellie/Nora
Nosy Nora
Paul Pry
Peter Pan collar
plain Jane

Potemkin village (village full of happy peasants that’s just a lot of façades)
Raglan sleeve
Sally Ann (Salvation Army)
Sally Lunn (cake)
Smart Alec
Spotty Herbert
Sweet Fanny Adams
Tam O’Shanter
Tom Jones (long-forgotten hairstyle)
Typhoid Mary
Watson (detective’s dim friend)
Wellington (boot)