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Still Waters Run Deep choose

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[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II 2: A fellow who risks... the spinning of a roulette wheel is a gambler, and may be quodded by the first beak that comes handy.
at beak, n.1
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: Ah, don’t ye be puttin’ the blarney on me.
at put the blarney on (v.) under blarney, n.1
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II i: mrs. s: If a man gave you a blow, what would you do? mildmay: Hit him again. mrs. s: Yes, if he were a Bruiser, but if he were a gentleman...
at bruiser, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: I’m a cool hand, I flatter myself, but, by Jove, she nearly threw me off my balance last night.
at cool hand (n.) under cool, adj.
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: Galvanics at two-and-a-half discount. That’s fishy!
at fishy, adj.2
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: It’s that blackguard Bolter; he’s blowed the gaff.
at blow the gaff (v.) under gaff, n.1
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: Those muffs at the Home Office crow about shutting up the West End Hells; but what’s chicken-hazard to time bargains?
at hell, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: Just glance your eye over it, while I knock off this calculation.
at knock off, v.
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: Surely that wildcat of a woman knows better than to carry out her threat of peaching.
at peach, v.
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: A greater flat was never potted.
at pot, v.
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: A fellow who risks his hundred on the spinning of a roulette ball, is a gambler, and may be quodded by the first Beak that comes handy.
at quod, v.
[UK] T. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: There’s only one thing for it—we must rig the market. Go in and buy up every share that’s offered.
at rig, v.2
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