Citations:bally

English citations of bally

Unidentified meaning 1

• 1896, George Frank Lydston, Over the Hookah: The Tales of a Talkative Doctor, page 484:

  When, like a good soldier, he went his rounds the next morning, he found the rank and file very chipper, I thank you, while the 'blooming hofficers,' as Kipling would say, were having a ‘bally time of it’ — those who had not joined the ...

• 1944, Helen McRuer Morosco and Leonard Paul Dugger, Life of Oliver Morosco: The Oracle of Broadway, written from His Own Notes and Comments:

  "How are you, old thing?" he queried smilingly. "I had a bally time last night," he went on. "The boys gave me a blow-out on my approaching marriage, you know."

• 2014, N Quentin Woolf, The Death of the Poet (→ISBN):

  Imagine what a bally time you'll be having of it – lucky if you don't fall flat on your face, at some point. You slip and slide up the pitch, and lose a shoe, perhaps. Now, let's try it once again, but this time with some blighter sitting in the stands, ...

Unidentified meaning 2

• 2010, “Black Widow”, in Orion’s Stencil, performed by M9 ft. Cyrus Malachi and Blasphemy:

  couple arrows in the wire-tap
  a boss (?) is live on the highest flat
  forty-five levels, dying temples
  sore life for Orion’s stencil
  [incomprehensible] eyes resemble
  fling the bally when he line the devil