piping times
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Meaning: (archaic,idiomatic)Apleasantera.1900,Fame, page472:One of the current melodrama uses on the hoardings a four-sheet poster showing the picture of a motherly old woman with a baby in her arms. She is saying: "Well, I guess the country will be saved without me for awhile. I'll look after baby." That's about the attitude of the nursers of business in thesepiping timesof politics.
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