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The Lonely Plough choose

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[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 282: They don’t care a straw about your being a singer.
at not care a straw, v.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 108: It wouldn’t take more than a cent’s worth of shove to set his lordship against the Lugg.
at worth a cent under worth a..., phr.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 90: Never saw such a jaundiced old crab-apple in my life!
at crab-apple, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 228: What’s got you, Lup? You’re as queer as Dick’s hatband!
at ...Dick’s hatband under queer as..., adj.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 164: You’re safe as houses, and you know it.
at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 71: He will play a sort of Aunt Sally.
at Aunt Sally, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 100: The young folk and Cowgill – bad hats, every one of them!
at bad hat, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 165: It would be a fine old crow over the Creeping Jesus, if she bagged his post.
at bag, v.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 105: From Brack it smacked of the travelling bagman.
at bagman, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 106: When a man has a bang-up honest conviction, it’s up to him to get it proved.
at bang-up, adj.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 24: Licks creation! Stuns the stars! Bangs Banagher!
at beat Bannagher (v.) under Bannagher, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 205: That stick of mine wouldn’t be any good to you – you want something beefy.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 121: That’s Stubbs on his beetle-crusher – Lapwing, he calls it!
at beetle-crusher (n.) under beetle, n.1
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 252: Folks that don’t bleat aren’t wanted any on Bluecaster.
at bleat, v.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 252: There was no way getting past that bleat of yours.
at bleat, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 119: When I was a kid it was my big blow-out of the year [...] like Christmas Day and all that piffle!
at blow-out, n.1
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 107: I let him know pretty straight that I thought he was in for the blue devils.
at blue devils, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 71: Two bob entrance, grub provided.
at bob, n.3
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 74: Queer little body!
at body, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 178: The whole boiling had been at them telling them they could only vote for nine!
at whole boiling lot, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 196: He was the sure the Show atmosphere would have bowled him over at once.
at bowl over, v.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 144: I’d meant to go, if I’d had to work my passage, but the old man’s seen to the brass.
at brass, n.1
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 207: Wish you’d buck up, though.
at buck up, v.2
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 261: Buck up, I tell you!
at buck up!, excl.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 67: We’ll give him a bucketing some day over Ewrigg after rabbits.
at bucketing, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 162: He said awful things about Thorne when Creeping Jesus had bunked.
at bunk, v.1
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 163: Bunkum! [...] You’re talking through your hats. Of course I can’t do it!
at bunkum, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 67: Do her a lot more good than stuffing along in an old ’bus.
at bus, n.2
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 191: I’m glad I had ‘Elijah’ as the final bust-up.
at bust-up, n.
[UK] C. Holme Lonely Plough (1931) 95: Slinging the dicebox [...] and adding ‘Butter-thumbs!’ when he missed it.
at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
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