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Sydenham Greenfinch 47: ‘We know what Sell’s about, eh! Greenfinch’ [...] ‘A few,’ replied that gentleman.at few, a, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 47: ‘We know what Sell’s about, eh! Greenfinch’ [...] ‘A few,’ replied that gentleman. Sydenham Greenfinch 38: ‘[Y]ou won’t do me, s’help me thunder and fish-hooks!’.at thunder and lightning!, excl.
Sydenham Greenfinch 84: He [...] tried to appear wide awake, and by sheer dint of volubility and champagne, succeeded.at wide-awake, adj.
Sydenham Greenfinch 60: [A] really authentic anecdote as a set-off to the outrageous bam his friend had just volunteered.at bam, n.1
Sydenham Greenfinch 5: [of a stone iguanadon at the Crystal Palace] The beggar is fitted up with seats inside, like an omnibus.at beggar, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 53: Dashing past a whole ‘biling’ (as the classico-American style expresses it) of houses, men, women, children, gigantic gas boilers [etc].at whole boiling lot, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 68: [H]e made up his mind to ‘read like bricks’ and astonish the envious eyes of Oxford.at like bricks (adv.) under bricks, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 8: [A][ buttons of diminutive but obese proportions [...] obeyed the call.at buttons, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 70: [H]is own capability for thrashing other boys (the ‘cock’ of the particular school always included).at cock, n.3
Sydenham Greenfinch 11: Tom proceeded to designate Exeter Hall as a ‘mortal cock and hen shop’.at cock-and-hen club (n.) under cock, n.3
Sydenham Greenfinch 67: ‘I’m dashed if I shan’t get mnarried and do the patriarchal,’ observed Hawkins.at do the — (v.) under do, v.1
Sydenham Greenfinch 38: ‘I say, Sydenham,’ he said, [...] ‘why is a young lady cutting notches in her doll like a character in Amsworth’s “Jack Sheppard”?’ Sydenham looked helplessly bewildered. ‘Because she nicks her dolly’.at dolly, adj.
Sydenham Greenfinch 103: The value of rotten eggs, dead kittens, knock-me-downs.at knock-’em-downs, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 38: ‘Dutch metal costs nothing’ [...] ‘Stick on a dollop of bright red and a whole host of shine’ (probably meaning Dutch metal).at Dutch foil (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
Sydenham Greenfinch 37: One fairy [i.e. a ballet girl] left off chalking the soles of her slippers.at fairy, n.1
Sydenham Greenfinch 20: [H]e contented himself with allusions to being ‘spooney,’ ‘off one's feed,’ [or] ‘Paul and Virginiaish’.at off one’s feed (adj.) under feed, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 85: ‘You’re not such a hardened smoker as I am [...] Turn in, governor — good night’.at governor, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 38: ‘ — you [...] what the — are you doing?’.at what the hell...?, phr.
Sydenham Greenfinch 66: A splitting headache rewarded our three knights for the exploits of the previous evening.at knight, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 64: Tumbling-Boy [...] is wheeled off by the Clown, and finally kicked.) Comic Man. ‘How’s the leather?’.at leather, n.
Sydenham Greenfinch 11: Tom proceeded to designate Exeter Hall as a ‘mortal cock and hen shop’.at mortal, adj.1
Sydenham Greenfinch 34: ‘Such fun, mamma; pa’s plucked again’.at pluck, v.
Sydenham Greenfinch 34: ‘Don’t be satirical, puss,’ he replied.at puss, n.1
Sydenham Greenfinch 69: [H]er lover, quite willing to dispense even with having Greenfinch to roast.at roast, v.
Sydenham Greenfinch 38: ‘What the shivers do you want with such colours, blow it!’.at what the shivers under shivers!, excl.
Sydenham Greenfinch 88: ‘[T]hey likes their bit of gossip and a yard of tape’.at yard of tape (n.) under yard, n.4
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