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Posted By: wwh Billingsgate - 10/01/03 12:47 PM
"Old London Bridge was soon passed, and old Billingsgate market with its oyster-boats and Dutchmen,"
Billingsgate was the site of a large fish market, where profanity was so prevalent, that "billingsgate" is a cliché
for profanity.

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