Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde choose

Quotation Text

[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 10: ‘[S]ome bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden’.
at old bird, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 9: For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man.
at my man, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 10: [H]is eye lighted up with professional ambition. ‘This [i.e. a crime] will make a deal of noise,’ he said.
at noise, n.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 8: ‘Well, we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child’s family’.
at screw up, v.
no more results