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Indep. 54 2035: Two or three salient facts will account for the milk in the cocoanut. The Legislature of 1899 [...] enacted a law creating a State Tax Commission [etc.].at milk in the coco(a)nut (n.) under milk, n.
Indep. 54 2035: Two or three salient facts will account for the milk in the cocoanut. The Legislature of 1899 [...] enacted a law creating a State Tax Commission [etc.]. Indep. 26 Nov. 2794/2: The victualing department was presided over by two heathen grub spoilers, who [...] could not boil water without burning it .at grub-spoiler (n.) under grub, n.2
Indep. 2 Apr. 771: I’ve been thirty-five years at the hackin’ business in Brooklyn and Manhattan [HDAS].at hack, v.3
in Indep. 22 June 1938: The man of the tenement? Oh, he broods and ‘dopes’ his life away [HDAS].at dope, v.3
Indep. 23 May 1186: So we were only four hands on deck, outside [...] Aleck Jackson, our negro cook, a thoro sailor from backbone to breakfast time .at from arsehole to breakfast (time) under arsehole, n.
Indep. 23 Apr. 908/2: We want men as is sailors [...] No dock rats, ner deck swabs, ner turnpike sailors’ll suit here .at turnpike sailor, n.
Indep. 29 Nov. 17/1: The highly respected beancounters at Price Waterhouse have failed to recognise that times are changing in the City.at bean counter (n.) under bean, n.1
Indep. 7 Nov. 2/4: Police fear Acid House parties [...] provide an ideal opportunity for professional criminals to sell drugs, particularly the ‘designer’ drug Ecstasy favoured in the Acid House culture.at acid house party (n.) under acid, n.1
Indep. 30 Oct. n.p.: Prototype bodice-ripper with 17th-century wild child Lorna [...] falling for her clan’s avowed enemy.at bodice-ripper, n.
Indep. 5 June 30: Each player has a specific training routine, and meals are carefully monitored. Muesli and fruit for breakfast – at least until the coach is absent, then it is the full Monty.at monty, n.
Independent 9 Jan. 28/8: Socially, football has been followed by the lower orders, while golf and cricket has attracted poshos.at posho, n.
Independent 14 July 🌐 They are visited by a priest who warns them that Satan patrols this patch of land – though the priest seems a few wafers short of a communion, so this news may or may not be true.at two wafers short of a communion under ...short of..., adj.
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 32: They banged him up in a mental home near Milton Keynes.at bang up, v.2
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 38: Glen would shoot the breeze with them, ask them about their families.at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 40: You don’t have to see those people with their guts all over everything or burnt up or with their heads bung off.at bung, v.1
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 16: Hackney dog track was a dump, a kazi.at carsey, n.
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 6: Having been bamboozled by a con-man on his doorstep.at con-man, n.
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 36: He enjoys his work, rolling along dirt roads [...] air conditioning cranked up high.at crank, v.
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 36: We had three large groups come over last month, but it’s been pretty dadgum quiet since then.at dad-gum, adj.
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 32: According to Drif, a ‘dog’ is a book which is so unsaleable that you can hear it barking a mile off.at dog, n.2
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 19: ‘Knocking out’ dogs by doping them is not an easy thing to do.at dope, v.1
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 36: Gaw-dang! Big ole coyote!at gaw, n.
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 42: His education in hustling comes from the City, where he worked trading equities.at hustle, v.
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 20: All these elements help create what Parker calls ‘the buzz’, transforming the usual desultory punt into a palpable occasion.at punt, n.1
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 18: Danny’s a big punter.at punter, n.
Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 32: He spent more than ten years weeviling through charity shops [...] schlepping big bags of tradeables.at schlep, v.
Independent (London) 10 June 🌐 the New York Times asked Julia Child, the cookery guru, to compose a suitable menu for a pre-electric chair meal - even weighing the merits of rival wines.at electric chair meal (n.) under electric, adj.
Indep. 16 May n.p.: A Year with Swollen Appendices, his chronicle of 1995, complete with batso speculations (‘28th May. Woke at 4.30. Funny thing – in Ireland I rarely get an erection...’).at batso (adj.) under bats, adj.
‘Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght’ in Indep. Rev. 26 Dec. 1: The grebo was giving it alle of thatte.at give it all that (v.) under all that, adj.
‘Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght’ in Indep. Rev. 26 Dec. 1: Queene Brenda has gotte the arseayke over this.at arseache (n.) under arse, n.
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