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Singing Sands 5: He looked up [...] and said disgustedly: ‘Tight as an owl!’.at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
Singing Sands 5: He looked up [...] and said disgustedly: ‘Tight as an owl!’. Singing Sands 140: ‘What did you do in Paris during your long wait for Bill to turn up?’ ‘Oh, I helled around some’.at hell around, v.
Singing Sands 101: She should have saved her breath and her bawbees, poor lady.at baubee, n.
Singing Sands 130: Most of us—all of us, in fact—drop work when we turn the bus over to the ground staff.at bus, n.2
Singing Sands 76: As a source of information he was pure horse’s mouth, and he ‘gave’ like a beer tap.at give, v.2
Singing Sands 221: ‘You look like a bridegroom,’ Sergeant Williams said in great satisfaction, pump-handling Grant .at pump-handle, v.
Singing Sands 31: It’s an awful jessie-like thing to present a bookey [i.e. bouquet]’.at jessie, n.1
Singing Sands 27: ‘You can have a len’ of my fly, if you like’.at lend, n.
Singing Sands 56: Not enough [whisky] to make him drunk but quite enough to make him muzzy.at muzzy, adj.
Singing Sands 76: He had been ‘on’ in the affair from first to last [...] As a source of information he was pure horse’s mouth.at on, adv.1
Singing Sands 93: He edged in beside His Reverence and waited with him while the fishermen were being served [...] The priest ‘picked him up’ and he had five witnesses to it.at pick up, v.
Singing Sands 213: He had been in danger of letting his flair bolt with him. He must take a pull on himself.at take a pull (at/on) (v.) under pull, n.
Singing Sands 168: ‘Well, we do have bright lights in London.’ ‘Yes. Maybe I’ll have another smack at London. London’s all right’.at smack, n.1
Singing Sands 3: Browse, indeed! The very sound of the word was an offence. A snore.at snore, n.
Singing Sands 230: [N]ow the secret was front-page news [...] Oh, Sweet Jesus, let him not have read about it yet.at sweet Jesus! (excl.) under sweet, adj.1
Singing Sands 49: ‘He didn’t really believe that I would let him come to Scoone instead. It was just a try-on’.at try-on (n.) under try, v.
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