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[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 172: ‘Put it down in your diary [...] and send it to your rag.’ ‘And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return’.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 15: ‘You never said so.’ ‘There was nothing worth bucking about’.
at buck, v.3
[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 23: ‘It was a discreditable business. There were one or two folk who were inclined to take him seriously, but he soon choked them off.’ ‘How?’ ‘Well, by his insufferable rudeness and impossible behavior’.
at choke off, v.
[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 236: ‘It was horrible – but it was doocedly interestin’ too’.
at deucedly, adv.
[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 85: ‘Sir John Ballinger is the best gentleman jock in the north country’.
at jock, n.2
[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 66: ’If the medical students turn out there will be no end of a rag. I don’t want to get into a bear-garden’.
at rag, n.4
[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 41: ‘You must behave yourself, dear. Mr. Malone is a Pressman. He will have it all in his rag tomorrow, and sell an extra dozen among our neighbors’.
at rag, n.1
[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 89: ‘He seemed an uppish old bird. His brothers of science don’t seem too fond of him, either’.
at uppish, adj.
[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 81: ‘Mr. Malone, I understand,’ said he. ‘We are to be companions - what?’.
at what?, phr.
[Scot] Conan Doyle Lost World 106: ‘Even now I can't for the life of me understand why you should have worked it in so extraordinary a manner’.
at work, v.
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