according to Cocker

Meaning: (dated,colloquial,British,idiomatic)Doneproperly,correctlyandreliably; inaccordancewith properprocedureand establishedrules.1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “A Crisis”, inTom Brown at Oxford:[…], part 2nd, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor and Fields, published1861,→OCLC,page140:“Well, so you ought to be,according to Cocker, spending all your time in sick rooms.”“According to who?”“According to Cocker.”“Who is Cocker?”“Oh, I don't know; some old fellow who wrote the rules of arithmetic, I believe; it's only a bit of slang.[…]”1885, Lewis Hough, “Touch and Go!”, inFor Fortune and Glory:A man rode at an Arab who fired and missed him, and then seized his spear, with the apparent intention of meeting him as an infantry soldier should,according to Cocker.1931,R[ichard] Austin Freeman, “Of a Hansom Cab and a Black Eagle”, inPontifex, Son And Thorndyke‎[1]:It seems that a certain constable whose beat included Dorchester Square was going his round rather late one evening when he noticed a hansom cab drawn up about the middle of the south side of the square. There was no sign of the driver, and no one minding the horse; and as this was not quiteaccording to Cocker, it naturally attracted his attention.

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