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The Cockney rhyming slang "dukes" is now entirely obsolete, but in my 1960s childhood, people still used to say "put up your dukes" (ie, "raise your fists") if they were jokingly challenging someone to a fight. I haven't heard it said in years.
"Leave Before the Lights Come On" is a song by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. The song was released on 14 August 2006 as the band's third single in the United Kingdom. The song was not included on the band's debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not , though Alex Turner has stated that it could have been on the album as ...
Put Up Your Dukes was a sports television talk show that began September 4, 2007, on NFL Network. It features former NFL center , Jamie Dukes . The show aired from Tuesdays through Fridays at 6:30 p.m. Eastern .
Dae Dae Grant scored 19 points, including four clinching free throws in the final 10 seconds, and the No. 11 seed Dukes held on after blowing a 14-point lead i Put up your Dukes!
When dealing with nobles from outside the British Isles, be careful of English idiom for anglicized titles. British dukes normally have dukedoms, Continental dukes have duchies; but there are exceptions: Duchy of Cornwall is idiom. The British peer and his wife are marquess and marchioness; modern idiom for Continental nobles tends to favor ...
The Little Flames formed in December 2004, after members of the band were introduced to each other by dub and punk DJ Babylon Fox. [3] The band's run was short lived, and split up on 15 May 2007 prior to the release of their debut album, [4] which was not released until 2016. [5]
Only those classified within the social class of royalty and upper nobility have a style of "Highness" attached before their titles. Reigning bearers of forms of Highness included grand princes, grand dukes, reigning princes, reigning dukes, and princely counts, their families, and the agnatic (of the male bloodline) descendants of emperors and kings.
Duke and Duchess are considered the highest titles of nobility. (There are four additional lower rankings: marquis, earl, viscount and baron, which are held by various nobles, advisors to the king ...