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Won in a Canter I 27: ‘Now, Rasper, as you know, cannot ride, and my friend can, so it is Lombard Street to a China orange’.at Lombard Street to a china orange, phr.
Won in a Canter I 27: ‘Now, Rasper, as you know, cannot ride, and my friend can, so it is Lombard Street to a China orange’. Won in a Canter I 109: ‘Jim Crow’ is not to be choked off; he is the cut-and-come-again sort, is ‘Jim Crow.’ You will win by half a mile.at cut-and-come-again, adj.
Won in a Canter I 11: ‘Stick it on, old fellow; pile on the agony’.at put on an/the agony (v.) under agony, n.
Won in a Canter II 280: ‘Now if Mr. Charles was fit and well [...] it would be all up but shouting’.at all over bar the shouting, phr.
Won in a Canter II 180: ‘I never see a gentleman more mops and brooms in my life’.at mops and brooms, adj.
Won in a Canter I 112: ‘I must have an S. and B’.at b and s, n.
Won in a Canter I 143: ‘Just make a long arm will you, old fellow, and pass the whisky?’.at make a long arm (v.) under arm, n.
Won in a Canter II 307: ‘Do you think he-will pull through, Bullfinch?’ he hoarsely demands of that worthy. ‘Safe as ninepence, Sir’.at ...ninepence under safe as..., adj.
Won in a Canter III 99: ‘l’m bitten all to pieces — eaten up — look at my face.’ ‘Well, Sir, there is no denying as them B flats has been at you’.at b flat, n.
Won in a Canter I 79: ‘[H]e’s been all over the fresh-planted praties, and cut them to smithereens, bad cess to him’.at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
Won in a Canter I 178: ‘[D]ashed if I would not rather drink gin with the boots all day long, than dine with a bag-man’.at bagman, n.
Won in a Canter I 62: ‘Guardsman baked!’ shouts the ring, as the horse is seen nearly last.at baked, adj.
Won in a Canter I 43: Banting, Tim, Banting. No bread, no butter, no sugar, no beer, no saccharine matter of any sort; plenty of meat, biscuits, toast, claret and seltzer-water. That is my diet’.at bant, v.
Won in a Canter I 150: Charles Barlow, the celebrated fishing-tackle maker, and first cousin of the equally well-known ‘Billy Barlow’.at billy barlow, n.2
Won in a Canter I 21: ‘I can ride; I used to jump the old nag often unknown to my governor, and could go like beans’.at like beans (adv.) under beans, n.3
Won in a Canter I 137: ‘But her wedding [...] It beat cock-fighting. [...] The fellow came to church half-screwed; his best man quite so. The amiable bride was as white as a sheet’.at that beats cockfighting under beat, v.
Won in a Canter I 70: ‘Bedad, you’re out there, Mat’.at bedad!, excl.
Won in a Canter I 75: ‘Begorra, he’ll do as he likes entirely’.at begorra!, excl.
Won in a Canter I 72: ‘Be jabers, he is seated in the card-room alone’.at bejabers!, excl.
Won in a Canter I 254: ‘No, it is not Mrs. Allsnob, she rides in a topped hat [...] This one has a billy-cock, or a porkpie, or whatever you call it‘.at billycock, n.
Won in a Canter II 219: ‘What news. has he bled?’ ‘No, Harry, [...] he has not bled’.at bleed, v.1
Won in a Canter I 219: ‘Here, take them away,’ he said, as two blue-coated gentlemen made their appearance from an inner room.at bluecoat, n.
Won in a Canter I 33: Ali the men in his regiment had
thebluess when he left.at blues, n.1
Won in a Canter I 29: ‘[W]e [...] told him we would have him on board in a brace of shakes. “Not in these boots,” he said’.at not in these boots under boot, n.2
Won in a Canter III 47: ‘[Y]ou were so taken up today with old bottle-nosed Rasper’.at bottlenosed, adj.
Won in a Canter I 174: [of horses] They were not bruisers over a country, but were difficult to beat along the roads.at bruiser, n.
Won in a Canter I 28: [T]he Colonel swallowed a bumper of port at a gulp.at bumper, n.2
Won in a Canter III 11: ‘[L]et bim go to the fore; but come again half a mile from home and burst him’.at burst, v.1
Won in a Canter I 18: One fellow of ours said his father was a Turkey merchant. He had no end of tin, and we really thought he was the ‘correct card’.at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
Won in a Canter I 14: ‘[C]carrots,’ a name which had been given him in consequence of his hair having assumed a deeper tinge, and was now in colour [...] ‘a cross between an early short-horned carrot and a scarlet-topped raddish’.at carrots, n.
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