TO DRINK, or LUSH, AT FREEMAN’S QUAY, verb. phr. (old).—To drink at another’s expense. [Freeman’s Quay was a celebrated wharf near London Bridge, and the saying arose from the beer that was given to porters, carmen, and others going there on business.]

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.

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