The Pox Doctor's Clerk

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D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 15: They [...] ran into another mob of guys that shouldn’t have been out on the street. Only kids and dressed like pox doctors’ clerks. Culotta’s 1957 novel, They’re A Weird Mob, holds the earliest citation, says Laugesen: “Jimmy whistled two notes softly, and Joe said, ‘Gees Nino, yer done up like a pox doctor’s clerk. Yer don’t need no coat an’ a coller an’ tie.’” R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 106: Clerk, pox doctor’s, to be dressed up like a: to be over-dressed. Eric Partridge, Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day, The Pox Doctor's Clerk is the moving and entertaining memoirs of one man's experiences as a volunteer in the casualty department of a Leicester hospital.

No, no,” they shouted. “You can’t wear it like that. You look like a pox doctor’s clerk (pronounced clark).” G. Kersh Thousand Deaths of Mr Small 345: Don’t come dressed up like a pox-doctor's clerk. Come dressed like a human being. The earliest occurrence that I have found is from an article written from London, England, by Ernie Hill, of the Chicago Daily News ( Chicago, Illinois), and published in several U.S. newspapers in March 1954—for example in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) of Friday the 26 th: At the fifth hat shop, I found one. Currently there is a run on derbies because they suddenly have returned to popularity.Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 106: Gees, Nino, yer done up like a pox doctor’s clerk. Yer don’ need no coat an’ a collar an’ tie. The hat must be placed straight on the head, a little forward so it catches on the bump at the rear of the head. This is to permit the hat to be tipped readily to ladies.

J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 8: ‘Wheredya come by your china? [...] He comes up like a pox doctor’s clerk’.arts Australia & New Zealand etymology French/English linguistics literature media music public affairs religion symbolisms United Kingdom & Ireland USA & Canada Main Tags animals Australia Christianity dictionaries drinks economics food human body Ireland judicial Latin military newspapers & magazines phrases politics slang sports & games theatre United Kingdom USA links It was explained to me how a derby must be worn. The fashion is set by the young blades of Mayfair. Viewers of real-life medical programmes and medical dramas will be all too familiar with the grisly details and the tragedy in the 'cas' which is, perhaps by necessity, tempered by humour and moments of light-heartedness.