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Rose of Tibet 49: ‘Sorry I was a bit abrupt this morning. There’s a big load in and the boys get things arsey-turvey if you take your eyes off for a minute’.at arsey-tarsey, phr.
Rose of Tibet 49: ‘Sorry I was a bit abrupt this morning. There’s a big load in and the boys get things arsey-turvey if you take your eyes off for a minute’. Rose of Tibet 11: ‘You don’t think,’ I said fumbling, ‘we should let him have another go, off his own bat’.at off one’s own bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
Rose of Tibet 189: It did not seem to matter a bean, now that the cat was out of the bag, whether Houston saw the other Europeans or not.at bean, n.1
Rose of Tibet 135: The lama has the feeling he has been bowled rather a fast one.at slip a fast one (over) (v.) under fast one, n.
Rose of Tibet 11: ‘You don’t think,’ I said fumbling, ‘we should let him have another go, off his own bat’.at go, n.1
Rose of Tibet 17: ‘I had just had another go of this bronchitis’.at go, n.1
Rose of Tibet 13: [D]espite his apparent senility, Mr. Oliphant had kept his marbles in very fair trim.at marbles, n.4
Rose of Tibet 134: ‘I’m the Duke of Ganzing. The monastery happens to be in my parish—so to speak’.at parish, n.
Rose of Tibet 8: T.L. had been having at the time one of his not uncommon raves; on this occasion for the mental-disciplinary benefits of a classical language.at rave, n.
Rose of Tibet 101: ‘Well, I nearly went tonight [to the theatre] myself,’ Wragg said, ‘just to see Edward Adrian again. I had a terrific rave on him when I was a student’.at rave, n.
Rose of Tibet 298: He’s offered forty million escudo. It’s only half what the stuff is worth, but they have big risks. They’ve got to get it into Goa. And we can screw them up a bit .at screw up, v.
Rose of Tibet 26: e could give the sailor’s farewell to the Head of the Edith Road Girls’ Secondary [...] and on any propitious day set up as an artist.at soldier’s farewell (n.) under soldier, n.
Rose of Tibet 150: ‘Why can’t I see them, then?’ ‘Ah, now. Now, now, old chep,’ said the duke. In the face of such stonewalling, affable but resolute, Houston was powerless.at stonewall, v.
Rose of Tibet 176: ‘You’ve read half the spring list already. What do you think of this one’. ‘It looks a bit tripy to me. Is it supposed to be true?’.at tripey, adj.
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