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[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 233: [C]ompetitors who had taken part in the sober events were now walking ponies and coffeehousing while they waited for the bending race.
at coffee-house, v.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 207: ‘Well, see that you remember what I said. [...]’ [a]nd he flung away from them towards the house.
at fling, v.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 265: ‘I’ll [...] yell my head off until someone comes’.
at — one’s head off (v.) under head, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 235: ‘My brother? Simon suggested it?’ ‘Yes. Got a head on him, Simon’.
at have a head on (v.) under head, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 172: ‘Mercy-be-here! I can hardly credit it’.
at mercy!, excl.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 207: ‘He’s distinctly off her. And he’s not awfully enamoured of you, if it comes to that’.
at off, prep.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 239: ‘Of all the “old soldier” tricks to fall for!’ laughed Clint [...] ‘I ought to have my head examined’.
at old soldier, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 190: Patrick ‘weren’t never one to make a pucker’, no matter how ‘tedious bad’ things were.
at pucker, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 237: One of the ‘junior’ jumpers came a frightful purler over the first fence going into the country.
at purler, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 205: ‘It’s going to be perfect weathe [...] I can remember only one real soaker at Bures’.
at soaker, n.2
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 217: Brat wished that this tadpole creature was not sitting between himself and Eleanor.
at tadpole, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ Brat Farrar 154: ‘Mr. Patrick, I’m glad to see you. I’m tarnation glad to see you’.
at tarnation, adv.
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