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[Scot] B. Stuart Far To Go 67: [T]his realisation is too much for the recruit to assimilate all at once, and he acquires a feeling of acute ‘fedupness’ [...] which at times borders on dementia.
at fed-upness under fed up, adj.
[Scot] B. Stuart Far To Go 145: If I had offered him a pork chop, he could not have kicked up more row. Walk into Beni Abbes?—not pygmalion likely!
at not Pygmalion likely! (excl.) under not likely, phr.
[Scot] B. Stuart Far To Go 70: He sent him a perfect ‘stinker’ of a telegram .
at stinker, n.1
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