Why, there's a fine chance here for a clever man like yourself to set up for himself in the fruit and greengrocery.
"King of the Castle"
George Manville Fenn
If you wasn't wanted in the greengrocery line, you'd 'ave been on a monument, you're that patient.
"Adventures of Bindle"
Herbert George Jenkins
For example: "That man what used to work for the council is driving about the gen'leman as stays with Mrs Smith-the person what used to keep the greengrocery shop to the top of High Street afore her took the lodging house on East Cliff."
"A Poor Man's House"
Stephen Sydney Reynolds