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tod

idiom
Slang Cockney rhyming slang · East London
Meaning

own


Origin

via Tod Sloane

Examples
SIMPLE

I am sitting here on my tod.

CONTEXTUAL

Everyone else went out for dinner, so I stayed at the office on my tod to finish the report.

COMPLEX

The elderly man lived on his tod in a quiet cottage, finding peace in the silence that others might have found lonely.

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