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World of Dew 184: ‘Feather-bedding’, as it’s called—or ‘concealed unemployment’?at feather-bedding, n.
World of Dew 184: ‘Feather-bedding’, as it’s called—or ‘concealed unemployment’? World of Dew 100: ‘Sabo’ is a particularly interesting coinage [. . .]: coming from ‘sabotage’, it is employed of absenteeism in workers and of truancy or lecture-cutting in students. In the latter context it has come to have the associated meaning of ‘crib’, the convenient reference book which publishers thoughtfully bring out just before examination time.at crib, n.3
World of Dew 88: [T]he foreigner who amuses himself by guying the questions or returning equivocal answers, so confident that this stupid person will never realize that he is being had—is merely showing himself up.at guy, v.1
World of Dew 88: [T]he foreigner who amuses himself by guying the questions or returning equivocal answers, so confident that this stupid person will never realize that he is being had—is merely showing himself up.at have, v.
World of Dew 126: It is difficult to kick up hell in face of the passive resistance of the Japanese, especially when they are female.at kick up merry hell (v.) under hell, n.
World of Dew 175: [T]he implication was that no normal respectable [Japanese] woman would get herself involved in a juicy ‘love tragedy’—and on the stage the heroine has generally been a geisha or prostitute.at juicy, adj.
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