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Brewer's: Coaling
in theatrical slang, means telling phrases and speeches, as, “My part is full of `coaling lines.' ” Coal being money, means profit, whence coaling. (See p. 265, To Post The Goal ...)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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