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The Dolly Dialogues choose

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[UK] A. Hope Dolly Dialogues 21: I don’t care a pin for your opinion.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] A. Hope Dolly Dialogues 37: He gloried in his crime [...] and if they liked to send him to chokee they could.
at chokey, n.
[UK] A. Hope Dolly Dialogues 20: You can’t go ridin’ without gees can you?
at gee, n.1
[UK] A. Hope Dolly Dialogues 35: Well, that’s a good ’un — ha-ha-ha!
at good one, n.
[UK] A. Hope Dolly Dialogues 37: He gloried in his crime; if I remember his exact expression, it was that the jam was jolly well worth the powder.
at jam, n.2
[UK] A. Hope Dolly Dialogues 59: I said you were a silly old thing.
at old thing, n.
[UK] A. Hope Dolly Dialogues 20: We were spanking round the Park, behind Ready and Rhino. Miss Phaeton’s horses are very large.
at spank, v.2
[UK] A. Hope Dolly Dialogues 94: There are some things one can’t stick to.
at stick to, v.
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