First-class Hard LabourUnder this sentence, the prisoner sleeps on a plank bed without a mattress, and spends six or eight hours a day turning a hard crank, or treading a wheel. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on First-class Hard Labour from Infoplease:
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