Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
O-be-easy
TO SING ‘O BE EASY,’ verb. phr. (old).—See quot.
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1823. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue [EGAN], s.v. O BE JOYFUL. TO SING O BE EASY: to appear contented when one has cause to complain.
