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Uncle Fred in the Springtime 70: ‘[T]hey started chi-iking him, and he sailed in and knocked them base over apex into a pile of Brussels sprouts’.at arse over apex under arse, n.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 70: ‘[T]hey started chi-iking him, and he sailed in and knocked them base over apex into a pile of Brussels sprouts’. Uncle Fred in the Springtime 256: ‘Oh, my sainted bally aint!’ [sic].at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 187: ‘And you think you can do it?’ ‘On my head, Uncle Alaric. It’s in the bag’.at in the bag under bag, n.1
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 127: ‘If you have nothing else to do at the moment, you might be trying that [thought] over on your bazooka’.at bazooka, n.1
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 273: ‘[E]ven if he tells old Dunstable that you were out on a bender that night, you won’t get the boot?’.at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 124: ‘[Y]ou seem singularly ignorant of the manners and customs of good society. We bloods do not make scenes in public places’.at blood, n.1
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 134: It was a jocund little tale, slightly blue in spots,
and he told it well.at blue, adj.3
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 175: ‘[N]ow you tell me he isn’t a big bug in the medical world’.at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 70: ‘[T]hey started chi-iking him, and he sailed in and knocked them base over apex into a pile of Brussels sprouts’.at chi-ike, v.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 71: ‘He once took on three simultaneous costermongers in Covent Garden and cleaned them up in five minutes’.at clean up, v.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 270: ‘A touch of the collywobbles, I understand’.at collywobbles, n.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 19: ‘You appear to have been cutting up like a glamour girl at a Hollywood party’.at cut up, v.1
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 123: [used joc. of mansion] ‘[S]ome place down in Hampshire, not far from my own little dosshouse’.at dosshouse, n.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 268: ‘When he was running that club of his, it was only by a judicious use of knock-out drops that he was able to preserve order and harmony’ [ibid.] 303: ‘I still don’t see [...] why he should have slipped kayo drops in — ’.at knockout drops, n.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 67: ‘[A] goggle-eyed nitwit’.at goggle-eyed, adj.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 28: ‘[T]he shirking, skrimshanking, four-eyed young son of a what-not’.at four-eyed, adj.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 275: ‘Impostor A has just laid Baxter out cold with a knock-out drop [...] Impostor A has just slipped Baxter a Mickey Finn’.at mickey finn, n.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 240: ‘That I should have found you first crack out of the box like this is the one bit of goose I have experienced in the course of a sticky evening’.at first crack out of the box (adv.) under first, adj.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 170: ‘It's true, is it, that the old bird has bust a flipper?’ ‘He has wrenched his shoulder most painfully,’ assented Lady Constance.at flipper, n.1
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 237: [of an old woman] Her manner was cold and proud [...] But this fine old geezer soon altered all that.at geezer, n.1
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 57: .at Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 57: ‘What is the gentleman in the telephone booth wearing? [...] It might be one thing, or it might be another. He might be in his Sunday-go-to-meetings, or he might [...] be in his little bathing suit’.at Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (n.) under Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 86: ‘Gol durn yuh, l’il gal, as my spooked-up-with-vinegar friend would say, you’re a peach!’.at goldarn, v.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 240: ‘That I should have found you first crack out of the box like this is the one bit of goose I have experienced in the course of a sticky evening’.at goose, n.1
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 305: ‘I didn’t know the guv’nor ever stirred from the old home’.at governor, n.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 45: ‘Two hundred’ [i.e. pounds].’ ‘Two—what? How in the world did you manage to get in the hole for a sum like that?’ .at in the hole (adj.) under hole, n.1
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 80: ‘The Boss being away, I am playing hookey at the moment’.at play hooky, v.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 223: ‘[A]fter all, young G., what are you? Just a poet. Simply a ruddy ink-slinger’.at ink-slinger (n.) under ink, n.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 176: But half a jiffy. Aren’t you missing the nub?at jiffy, n.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 76: ‘[Y]ou had your hands on his throat and were starting to squeeze the juice out of him’.at juice, n.1
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