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Johnny-on-the-spot

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1896, OED Evaluation: N/A

a person who is available when needed, or ‘at the psychological moment’

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Oh yes. Oh they'd shove it up their rears. And the other thing was a common practice underground. You-see the- the crap-boxes the guys had to go- they didn't have washrooms or Johnny-on-the-spot so they had (inc) boxes that they used for- for crapping. You-know the guy had to go to the bathroom. Well the guy that take the high grade ore, they find it, shove it in there and then when they brought it up to surface, they'd just take it...
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