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Mingled Yarn 54: ‘Learn to keep your adjective hands down, and to balance your something-else bodies in the saddle, and then you shall have all the bad-language bits and spurs you want’.at adjective, adj.
Mingled Yarn 54: ‘Learn to keep your adjective hands down, and to balance your something-else bodies in the saddle, and then you shall have all the bad-language bits and spurs you want’. Mingled Yarn 77: [T]here was time [...] to visit the cinnamon gardens, to bargain for Brummagem jewellery and native curios with the aborigines.at Brummagem, adj.
Mingled Yarn 123: [T]hen chota hazree at mess: unda bakum [i.e. eggs and bacon], buttered toast, and coffee, the meal varied by the ‘Queen’s peg’ [i.e. gin and champagne] for the warrior who might be troubled with ‘acidity’.at chota hazri under chota, adj.
Mingled Yarn v: I am not proud of having established a record for the taking of ‘French leave’ whilst serving Her Majesty.at French leave, n.
Mingled Yarn 118: [W]eak as water, and very white about the ‘gills,’ I appeared before a Medical Board.at white about/around/in/round the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
(con. 1860s) Mingled Yarn 82: Can there have existed a more egregious, grass-green griffin than Ensign Edward Spencer Mott, when he landed
on the ‘coral strand’.at griffin, n.1
Mingled Yarn 129: [T]he morning after a ‘heavy guest night’ at mess [...] with a head on you like a concertina, and a tongue as rough as the binding of a fashionable novel.at head, n.
Mingled Yarn 111: ‘Come, no heeltaps, young un!’ shouted a brother officer
across the table.at heeltap, n.
Mingled Yarn 62: [of RMA Sandhurst] [S]olitary confinement — more
familiarly known in College as ‘the Black Hole’ or ‘the
Hole’.at hole, n.1
Mingled Yarn 106: I should have probably been ‘let in’ for a considerable sum, through having backed the bill of a brother officer, who had to leave the regiment in a hurry.at let in, v.
Mingled Yarn 86: I reclined on my bedding [...] after bidding the driver of the vehicle to ‘jow’ as ‘jeldy’ as was possible.at jildi, adv.
Mingled Yarn 114: The Old Man was simply a terror to any civilized community. Of Falstaifian build, possessing an unbounded capacity of swallow, always gay, always jesting .at old man, n.
Mingled Yarn 315: [He] entrusted an obliging and leathern-lunged ‘metallician’ with half a sovereign.at metallician, n.
Mingled Yarn 113: [T]here were some mess-stores [...] including a plentiful supply of brandy and soda-water, and I am afraid to jot down the total of ‘pegs’ consumed.at peg, n.4
Mingled Yarn 115: The old brandy was punished.at punish, v.
Mingled Yarn 74: We stayed here [i.e. Cairo] nearly a week, by which time we had seen all the ‘lions.’ Never shall I forget that execrable climb up the big Pyramid.at see the lions (v.) under see, v.
(con. 1860s) Mingled Yarn 82: I had been furnished
with letters of introduction (then known as 'tickets for
soup') to heads of departments and others.at ticket for soup (n.) under ticket, n.1
Mingled Yarn 7: it was occasionally urged against me, at Sandhurst and elsewhere, that I could not ‘run for toffee’.at for toffee (adv.) under toffee, n.
Mingled Yarn 40: Precious boasters and pretty romancers were these old regulation wallahs.at wallah, n.
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