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Amateur Cracksman (1992) 35: I saw you take a neat tumblerful [...] and it’s made you drunk as a fool.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 35: I saw you take a neat tumblerful [...] and it’s made you drunk as a fool. Amateur Cracksman (1992) 103: It beats me how you brought it off in daylight, fog or no fog!at beat, v.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 3: But it’s no good beating about the bush.at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 33: You left the same tracks every day, you buggins’, an’ the same tracks every night, all round the blessed premises.at blessed, adj.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 88: ‘We would,’ said he, ‘and blow the odds!’.at blow!, excl.1
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 23: One fellow was saying his prayers under the table, and the waiters bolted to a man.at bolt, v.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 115: I remember that I broke my last sovereign to get a box of Sullivan’s cigarettes for Raffles.at break, v.4
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 33: You left the same tracks every day, you buggins’, an’ the same tracks every night.at buggins, n.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 103: We had the bulge before; he has it now.at bulge, n.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 59: There are some brand-new bushrangers on the road between Whittlesea and this – a second Kelly gang!at bushranger (n.) under bush, n.1
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 22: I’m sorry you weren’t there too, Bunny, old chap.at old chap, n.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 33: Spit it out, or, by Christmas, I’ll drill you!at Christmas!, excl.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 65: I must trust to the sound sleeping of Ewbank upstairs [...] knock the visitor down, or shoot him with the revolver I had been new chum enough to buy before leaving Melborne.at new-chum, adj.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 122: To have chummed up with him would have been fatal.at chum along with (v.) under chum, v.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 117: I should have thought any clod could see that I meant us to meet by chance!at clod, n.1
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 47: Well, he might; he’s a cool hand.at cool hand (n.) under cool, adj.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 33: All right, guv’nor [...] don’t excite. It’s a fair cop.at fair cop, n.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 103: If our friend here is ‘copped’, [...] he means to ‘blow the gaff’ on you and me.at cop, v.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 14: I was nodding, as though we had been fellow cracksmen all our days.at cracksman, n.1
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 25: The Bank of England, for example, is the ideal crib.at crib, n.1
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 4: You used to be a literary little cuss [,...] didn’t you edit the mag before you left?at cuss, n.1
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 130: I’ll just be clappin’ the darbies on these young sparks.at darby, n.2
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 45: Lady Margaret told me so this morning [...] and the old dear will wear them every night.at old dear, n.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 15: Deuce knows how many more there’ll be, but I know of two at least.at deuce, the, phr.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 71: Took a cab in the King’s Road, and drove like the deuce to Clapham Junction.at deuce, the, phr.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 25: A man’s reach must exceed his grasp, dear boy, or what the dickens is a heaven for?at what the dickens...?, phr.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 125: You deep old dog – of course I do!at old dog, n.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 9: What you want is a drag, my boy.at drag, n.1
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 129: Have you dumped it overboard?at dump, v.
Amateur Cracksman (1992) 88: It may end in fizzle, so I would rather not speak about it to either of you yet.at fizzle, n.2
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