Tessie, Two-ton

   Used as a transferred name by English children to any fat girl or woman. Tessie O’Shea was, as her nickname indicates, fairly large in build. She was a popular singer in the music-halls whose career continued into the early 1970s in films.

   The lot of you, the pair of you, the pack of you, the two of you, the three of you, etc.

   This construction shows at best a neutral way of addressing a group of people, but more normally a fairly aggressive way of doing so. Typically the speaker would be a schoolmaster addressing pupils, for example, or an officer addressing his men. ‘The rest of you’ is said in a fairly kindly tone in Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony Powell; Doctor at Sea has unfriendly examples of ‘the lot of you’ and ‘the pair of you’; The Taste of Too Much, by Clifford Hanley, has unfriendly use of ‘the lot of you’ and ‘the two of you’; A Travelling Woman, by John Wain, has a fairly neutral use of ‘the two of you’.

   Irish dialectal use is shown in J.M. Synge’s The Tinker’s Wedding, where ‘the two of yous’ occurs. An American-Irish speaker in Waterfront, by Budd Schulberg, uses ‘the rest of yuz’ in an aggressive way: ‘The rest of yuz. Outa the way. Trucks comin’ through.’