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[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 48: ‘[I] stood him a blow-out at the tuck-shop’.
at blow-out, n.1
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 81: ‘Wouldn’t you like to sleep a bit now, sir? [...] You can carry on and have a jolly good caulk’.
at caulk (off), v.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 23: We had a makee-learn doctor on board [...] no end of a smart lad: he dished me up in fine style.
at dish up (v.) under dish, v.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 23: One of Fritz’s shore batteries got our range [...] Dusted us down properly.
at dust, v.1
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 23: They gave me six months’ full pay sick leave — not a bad old firm, the Admiralty.
at firm, n.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 40: ‘That’s my line of business — Fritz-hunting [...] Been at it from the kick-off’.
at kick-off, n.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 23: They lushed me up to this outfit, and gave me a job as a King’s Messenger.
at lush up, v.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 23: ‘Hence the milk in the coconut, as you might say’.
at milk in the coco(a)nut (n.) under milk, n.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 85: ‘Mug up, and let’s get ’appy and chatty.’ They crowded together [...] for warmth.
at mug, v.2
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 51: ‘That’s where the Hun has the pull over us’.
at pull, n.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 73: ‘[W]e shall have to scrap if we get into the semi-finals’.
at scrap, v.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 73: Breakfast in the gunroom was, to employ a transatlantic colloquialism, some breakfast.
at some, adj.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 24: ‘Lor’, yes, and you got spliced too’.
at splice, v.
[UK] ‘Bartimeus’ Long Trick 25: They go out and try to coax Fritz to come out to play [...] Fritz says ‘Not in these trousers, I don’t think’.
at not in these trousers under trouser, n.
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