Every enormity in the calendar

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  • every crime in the Newgate Calendar this phrase appears twice in Dickens (Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend) and elsewhere; compare “all the sinkts in the colander” (432.35-6), which combines saints and sins (also sinks, to go with the colander), the former from the liturgical calendar
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