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Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] [H]e’ll be nothing without Monk and Danvers. He's simply a sort of bottle-washer to the firm. When they go he'll collapse.at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] [H]e’ll be nothing without Monk and Danvers. He's simply a sort of bottle-washer to the firm. When they go he'll collapse. Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] He produced a letter from his pocket. ‘Don't you bar chaps who show you their letters?’ he said. ‘This was written by an aunt of mine. I don't want to inflict the whole lot on you’.at bar, v.1
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] There is nothing of Black Monday about the first day of term at a public school. Black Monday is essentially a private school institution.at black Monday (n.) under black, adj.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] [H]e raised his foot in silence, and ‘booted’ his own flesh and blood with marked emphasis.at boot, v.1
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] Wilson landed what my informant describes as three corkers on his opponent's proboscis.at corker, n.2
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] '[H]e [i.e. a sportsman]might crock himself or anything’.at crock, v.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘[A]fter all it isn't such a crusher, when you come to think of it. Only four of them are really certainties [...] . The rest are simply tail’.at crusher, n.1
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘A man cuts off in the middle of the M.C.C. match, loses us the game, and then comes back and offers to apologize’.at cut, v.2
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] 'What the dickens!' he said, as he finished reading the letter.at what the dickens!, excl.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] 'Doesn't it strike you that for a kid like you you've got a good deal of edge on?' asked Gethryn.at edge, n.1
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘Hullo, where did you raise that Sporter? [i.e. the Sportsman newspaper] Let's have a look.'.at -er, sfx2
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘[T]hanks awfully. I hope you've not fagged about it [i.e. a poem] too much’.at fag, v.2
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘Hullo, what’s up now? Have you got ’em too?’.at get ’em (v.) under get, v.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘How about the prize?’ ‘Oh, hang the prize. We'll have to chance that’.at hang, v.1
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] If they could beat a really hot team like Jephson's, it was reasonable to suppose that they would do the same to the rest of the Houses.at hot, adj.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] [of bowling] 'You were sending down some rather hot stuff,' said Norris.at hot stuff, n.2
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘You got rather left there, old chap,’ said Monk at length. ‘I like that,’ replied the outraged Danvers. ‘How about you, then? It seemed to me you got rather left, too’.at left, adv.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] [of ‘immoral’schoolboys] [He] went for frequent river excursions with Monk, Danvers, and the rest of the Mob.at mob, n.2
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘Be firm, my moral pecker,’ thought Gethryn, and braced himself up for conflict.at pecker, n.2
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘What's up? I'll tell you. We're done for. Absolutely pipped. That's what's the matter’.at pipped, adj.1
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] 'He was ragging me about the House. Quite right, too. You know, there's no doubt about it, Leicester's does want bucking up'.at rag, v.1
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] [T]he Upper Fourth, with the best intentions in the world, had not been skilful 'raggers'. They had ragged in an intermittent, once-a-week sort of way.at ragger (n.) under rag, v.1
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘I wished I was in for this poetry prize. I bet I could turn out a rattling good screed’.at rattling, adj.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] 'Not quite so much of your beastly cheek, please,' said Gethryn. 'Right-ho!' said Farnie cheerfully.at righto!, excl.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘Norris is a ripping good sort of chap, really’.at ripping, adv.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] You don't have to do much in the summer. Just rot around, you know, and go to the shop for biscuits and things, that's all.at rot about (v.) under rot, v.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] You can get a jolly good bike for five quid about, so you see I scoop ten pounds.at scoop, v.
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] On the very first occasion when he had attempted to put on the screw, Farnie had flatly refused to have anything to do with what he proposed.at put on the screw (v.) under screw, n.1
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] ‘Not a bad bat this, is it? What? Yes. One of Slogbury and Whangham's Sussex Spankers, don't you know’.at spanker, n.3
Prefect’s Uncle [ebook] He was not an ornamental bat, but stood quite alone in the matter of tall hitting.at tall, adj.
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