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The Professor of the Breakfast Table choose

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[US] O.W. Holmes Professor at the Breakfast Table 24: My lively friend has had his straw at the bung-hole of the Universe!
at arsehole of the universe (n.) under arsehole, n.
[US] O.W. Holmes Professor at the Breakfast Table 39: A friend of mine had a watch given him [...] a ‘bull’s eye,’ with a loose silver case.
at bull’s eye, n.
[US] O.W. Holmes Professor at the Breakfast Table 251: The gentleman with the diamond, the Koh-i-noor, as we called him, asked, in a very unpleasant sort of way, how the old boy was likely to cut up, meaning what money our friend was going to leave behind.
at cut up, v.2
[US] O.W. Holmes Professor at the Breakfast Table 253: Mouse is a technical term for a bluish, oblong, rounded elevation occasioned by running one’s forehead or eyebrow against another’s knuckles.
at mouse, n.
[US] O.W. Holmes Professor at the Breakfast Table 30: The boys of my time used to call a hit like this a ‘side-winder’ .
at sidewinder (n.) under side, adj.
[US] O.W. Holmes Professor at the Breakfast Table 208: On asking him what was the number of his room, he answered, that it was forty-’leven, sky-parlour floor.
at sky-parlour (n.) under sky, n.1
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