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Ancestral Voices diary 22 June (1975) 81: At luncheon the waiter asked, ‘Will you have cream with your gooseberries, m’m?’ ‘es, rather,'’said Nancy. ‘Delicious chalk’.at chalk, n.3
Ancestral Voices diary 22 June (1975) 81: At luncheon the waiter asked, ‘Will you have cream with your gooseberries, m’m?’ ‘es, rather,'’said Nancy. ‘Delicious chalk’. Ancestral Voices diary 14 June (1975) 68: ‘This is Lord Brocket.’ B. [...] beamed, bowed, and received the homage of a dozen demi-mondaines and and flash-alfs during an impressive hush.at flash harry (n.) under flash, adj.
Ancestral Voices diary 31 Dec. (1975) 138: I feel sure Benton Fletcher, who is mad keen for us to buy the house, and who quite likes me, will forgive me.at mad, adv.
Ancestral Voices diary 9 May (1975) 56: The beast had, by way of skit, written a mock review of all those artists’ works which he would have liked to see exhibited.at skit, n.1
Ancestral Voices diary 31 Dec. (1975) 177: [W]ith the recent tarting up of this house I suspect that the spirits have been driven away.at tart up (v.) under tart, v.
Ancestral Voices diary 2 Apr. (1975) 178: Johnny Dashwood lunched with me at Brooks's. An expensive guest for he had a gin and tonic, a whisky and soda and a bumper brandy away.at bumper, adj.
Ancestral Voices diary 31 July (1975) 218: I learned several of her expressions: [...] a mild bore being an ‘Aubusson’, a real bore a ‘Kidderminster’, and a cracking bore a ‘velvet pile’.at cracking, adj.
Ancestral Voices diary 17 Oct. (1975) 257: The jokes were bawdy beyond words. Sandwiched as I was between the two po-faced ladies-in-waiting I did not dare laugh.at po-faced, adj.
Ancestral Voices diary 5 Dec. (1975) 279: [She] is certain that were it not for Roosevelt, they [i.e. Americans] would kick off.at kick off, v.1
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