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Miss Pym Disposes 140: ‘I may have a C3 intelligence and childish impulses, but I know tragedy when I see it’.at C-3, adj.
Miss Pym Disposes 140: ‘I may have a C3 intelligence and childish impulses, but I know tragedy when I see it’. Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 165: ‘You can surely put up with him for an hour or so, and not use Rouse’s accident as a sort of ace from your sleeve’.at ace up one’s sleeve (n.) under ace, n.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 103: ‘No one I have ever met had the same genius for leaving someone else holding the baby’.at hold the baby (v.) under baby, n.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 36: ‘Miss Pym had just been inquiring about the incidence of crime at Leys.’ Madame Lefevre said: ‘Well, let us oblige her. Let us turn out the rag-bag of our shameful past. What crime have we had?’ .at rag bag, n.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 84: ‘Once they come back from the match they are free for the week-end. So they will be gay this Saturday. Off the chain’ .at off the chain under chain, n.
Miss Pym Disposes 123: ‘I came with a chit to Miss Hodge, vouching for my relationship, my respectability, my solvency, my presentability, my orthodoxy—’.at chit, n.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 104: ‘[Y]ou didn’t even go a sixpenny bus-ride into Larborough to see him play tonight’ .at go, v.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 102: ‘I bought some cream puffs in Larborough on the way home [...] We can have our coffee in my room and have a gorge’.at gorge, n.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 102: [T]urning over with a fastidious fork the vegetable mysteries on her plate.at mystery, n.
Miss Pym Disposes 132: The successful star calling on the humble lecturer at a girls’ college should surely show more [...] willingness to peacock in front of the stranger.at peacock, v.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 177: However rabbity and inadequate she was by nature, there was always her other half [. . .] which stood watching her with critical eyes.at rabbity (adj.) under rabbit, n.1
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 95: [I]n went Lucy, feeling horribly like a culprit and furious with herself for being such a rabbit.at rabbit, n.1
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 24: [The girls] have ‘raves.’ You know what a ‘rave’ is?’ Miss Pym nodded. ‘They swoon if Madame Lefevre [i.e. a teacher] says a kind word to them’.at rave, n.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 102: ‘One would think,’ said Miss Lux, [...] ‘that on a night of celebration Miss Joliffe would have provided something more alluring than a scranbag’.at scran-bag (n.) under scran, n.
Miss Pym Disposes 124: ‘If I were not a lady,’ she said at length in clear tones, ‘I would spit!’.at I could spit! (excl.) under spit, v.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 101: [S]he closed the door quietly behind her. ‘Let her stew over that,’ she thought.at stew, v.1
Miss Pym Disposes 163: Lucy looked to see if he was being ironic. But no; the remark was ‘straight’.at straight, adj.1
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 36: ‘What became of her when we tossed her out, does anyone know?’ .at toss (someone) out (v.) under toss, v.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 36: ‘If you mean a plain wrong-un, there was that dreadful creature who was man-crazy’.at wrong ’un, n.
Miss Pym Disposes (1957) 36: ‘Farthing was had up last Christmas term for riding her bike without lights’ .at have (someone) up (v.) under up, adv.
Miss Pym Disposes (1954) 50: ‘I’m two pounds down on a cow called Bright Promise. That’s what comes of putting your faith in horseflesh’.at cow, n.1
Miss Pym Disposes (1954) 62: ‘I don’t know how the job was worked, but that it is a job I am certain’.at job, n.2
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