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Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 258: I want to be A 1 at cricket and football.at A-1, adj.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 258: I want to be A 1 at cricket and football. Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 198: Reckoning that East and Brown [...] wouldn’t care three straws for any licking Jones might give them.at not care a straw, v.
Tom Brown’s School-Days 342: I feed the old magpie [...] You should see him hop off to the window, dot and go one.at dot and go one, v.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 107: I’m as proud of the house as any one. I believe it’s the best house in the school, out-and-out.at out-and-out, adv.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 12: He’s got some real beauties to be fond of.at beauty, n.1
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 73: A capital spinner of a yarn when he had broken the neck of his day’s work, and got plenty of ale under his belt.at under one’s belt under belt, n.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 108: And now I’ve done blowing up, and am very glad I am to have done.at blow up, v.1
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 134: Squire Brown looks rather blue at having to pay two pound ten shillings for the posting expenses from Oxford.at blue, adj.1
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 196: If I was going to be flogged next minute, I should be in a blue funk, but I couldn’t help laughing for the life of me.at blue funk (n.) under blue, adj.1
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 17: Having resolved to ‘sar’ it out, as we say in the Vale, ‘holus-bolus’ just as it comes.at holus-bolus, adv.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 60: ‘Now, sir, time to get up, if you please.’ [...] So spake the Boots of the Peacock Inn, Islington.at boots, n.2
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 206: It’s past eight and we must go to first lesson. What a bore!at bore, n.1
Tom Brown’s School–Days 72: Where huge bull’s-eyes, and unctuous toffy might be procured.at bull’s eye, n.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 196: He’ll never be worth a button, if you go on keeping him under your skirts.at not worth a button (adj.) under button, n.1
Tom Brown’s School-days (1896) 78: Tom is arrayed [...] in a regulation cat-skin at seven-and-sixpence.at cat-skin (n.) under cat, n.1
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 20: For which she would be sure to catch it from Missus’s maid.at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
Tom Brown’s School–Days 8: A nice little gorse or spinney where abideth poor Charley, having no other cover to which to betake himself for miles and miles.at charlie, n.3
Tom Brown’s School-Days 18: There’s nothing like the old country-side for me, and no music like the twang of the real old Saxon tongue, as one gets it fresh from the veritable chaw in the White Horse Vale.at chaw, n.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 84: Gower – that’s my chum – and I make a fire with paper on the floor after supper generally.at chum, n.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 84: You’ll be chummed with some fellow on Monday, and you can sit here till then.at chum, v.
Tom Brown’s School-Days 342: They’ll make the old Madman cock medicine-man and tattoo him all over.at cock, adj.1
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 31: This is the crack set-to of the day.at crack, adj.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 109: Then don’t object to me cracking up the old School-house, Rugby.at crack up, v.1
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 6: We had to cut out our own amusements within a walk or a ride of home.at cut out, v.1
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 79: A great deal depends on how a fellow cuts up at first. If he’s got nothing odd about him, and answers straightforward, and holds his head up, he gets on.at cut up, v.1
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 270: It’s deuced hard that when a fellow’s really trying to do what he ought, his best friends’ll do nothing but chaff him.at deuced, adv.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 197: Nicely brought-up young man, ain’t he, I don’t think.at I don’t think, phr.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 19: Mercy! drat the girl.at drat, v.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 221: Martin leads the way in high feather; it is quite a new sensation to him, getting companions, and he finds it very pleasant.at in high feather under feather, n.
Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 270: It’s deuced hard that when a fellow’s really trying to do what he ought, his best friends’ll do nothing but chaff him.at fellow, n.
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