(UK) A minced oath for "Lord have mercy".

(of a comic strip) Providing humor in each day's strip, without a plot connecting the various days' respective strips.

To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value for something of very low, but immediate value.

(slang, simile) Drunk, inebriated. / Fully inflated; swollen near to bursting. / (slang, simile) Unwilling to spend money.

One cannot change one's own nature.

To a high degree of precision; with the utmost exactness; to a nicety.

A group of people who are paid to attend an event to increase attendance figures, rather than attending of their own volition.

(idiomatic) mentally deranged; demented; insane.

(idiomatic) To attempt to escape; to flee; to run away.

(US and Scotland, colloquial) A small drink of alcoholic spirits.