black-coated workman
⇨ black-coated worker; black-coated workman; little black worker
noun a prune. From the appearance and the work done during the digestive process. Remembered, in 1970, as being used by Lord Hill 'The Radio Doctor' during World War 2. Noted in Manchester in
Daltonian, December 1946, then generally in the Midlands and London
UK, 1946