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[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘It's beastly cheek [...] You can’t go about the place bagging studies’.
at bag, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘[I]t ’ud do a lot more good if they'd teach you how many beans make five; it ’ud do a lot more good if they’d teach you to come in when it rained’.
at know how many (blue) beans make five (v.) under beans, n.3
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘I fear Comrade Jellicoe is a bit of a weak-minded blitherer—’.
at blitherer, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘I have landed you, with a dull, sickening thud, right in the cart’.
at in the cart under cart, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] [T]he Wrykyn team that summer was about the most hopeless gang of deadbeats that had ever made exhibition of itself.
at deadbeat, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] What seems to have fed up Comrade Adair, to a certain extent, is that Stone apparently led him to understand [etc].
at fed up, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘We aren't such flyers here. If you know one end of a bat from the other, you could get into some sort of a team’.
at flyer, n.3
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘I do happen to have a quid. You can freeze on to it, if you like’.
at freeze (on) to (v.) under freeze, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘“There’s a P before the Smith,” I said to him. “Ah, P. Smith, I see,” replied the goat. “Not Peasmith,” I replied’.
at goat, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘Roust the guv'nor outer bed?’ [the boots] said. [...] The landlord of the White Boar was one of those men who need a beauty sleep.
at governor, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] Which [...] was hard lines on Ripton, but a bit of jolly good luck for Wrykyn.
at hard lines, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘What would you have done if somebody had bagged your study?’ ‘Made it jolly hot for them!’.
at make it hot for (v.) under hot, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith 125: Nothing that happens in this loony bin,” said Psmith, “has power to surprise me now .
at loony bin (n.) under loony, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘They may teach you young gentlemen to talk Latin and Greek and what-not at your school [etc]’.
at what-not, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘[H]e hasn’t enough evidence to start in on you with? You're all right. The thing’s a stand-off’.
at stand-off, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] The Incogs, with a team recruited exclusively from the rabbit hutch — not a well-known man on the side except Stacey [...] — had got home by two wickets.
at rabbit, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘I don’t like rows, but I’m prepared to take on a reasonable number of assailants in defense of the home’.
at row, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘Not an unsound scheme. By no means a scaly project’.
at scaly, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘[T]his [i.e. an upcoming fight] is not Comrade Jellicoe’s scene at all; he has got to spend the term in the senior day room, whereas we have our little wooden châlet to retire to’.
at not one’s scene (n.) under scene, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘[A] certain scug in the next village to ours happened last year to collar a Balliol—’.
at scug, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘[W]e’ve got a chance of getting a jolly good bit of our own back against those Downing's ticks?’.
at tick, n.2
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