Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Poor man’s oyster
subs. phr. (common).—See quot.
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1891. Tit-Bits, 8 Aug., 277, 2. There are thousands of costers who earn a livelihood by the sale of … mussels, which are regarded as the POOR MAN’S OYSTER.
