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Adventures of Captain Kettle; Further Adventures of Captain Kettle choose

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[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 186: I shall marry the fair Teresa. Simple as tumbling off a house.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 190: Skipper’s a bit of a methody.
at bit of (a), n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 287: By Jove! Skipper, we’ve saved our bacon.
at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 298: ‘Out, you blitherer,’ he shouted, ‘and save your mangy life.’.
at blitherer, n.1
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 119: The Coast nigger hereabouts has got a fancy that any ship on the beach is cumshaw for himself.
at cumshaw, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 284: ‘Now, you two Dagos,’ he said to the Portuguese.
at dago, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 210: What does he want to go ashore for at a one-eyed hole like this?
at one-eyed, adj.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 135: We shall want very clear heads [...] and I’m not going to fuddle mine.
at fuddle, v.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 186: Don’t blame you for coming ‘heeled,’ boss. Guess a gun sometimes chips in handy round here.
at heeled, adj.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 143: ‘Hullo,’ said Sheriff, ‘what’s that mean?’.
at hello!, excl.1
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 286: If he’d talked, he’d have got the straight kick-out from the owners.
at kickout, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 298: ‘Out, you blitherer,’ he shouted, ‘and save your mangy life.’.
at mangy, adj.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 190: Skipper’s a bit of a methody.
at Methody, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 187: If you can—well—so contrive that he doesn’t land at the other side, it means you are set up for life.
at other side (n.) under other, adj.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 191: He’s some sort of a big bug [...] inquiring into the organization of those Pat-lander rebels.
at Patlander (n.) under Pat, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 109: He threw himself down on the warm white sand [...] ‘You are a decent old puddle,’ he murmured.
at puddle, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 298: If any of you rats of men shove your way down here [...] before all the skirt is ferried across, you’ll get knocked on the head.
at skirt, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 227: ‘Very well. Den we shall spiflicate you till you do.’ [...] ‘I wonder what spiflication is,’ mused Kettle.
at spiflicate, v.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 144: Don’t throw up the sponge until someone else does it for you.
at chuck up the sponge (v.) under sponge, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 205: She means square biz.
at square business (n.) under square, adj.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 189: They get amongst people blacker than themselves, always try to ignore their lick of the tar-brush.
at touch of the tarbrush under tarbrush, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 193: It’s as legally binding as if the Archbishop of Canterbury tied the knot.
at tie the knot (v.) under tie, v.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 283: It was quite a toss-up even then.
at toss-up, n.
[UK] C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 297: You go and do your whack at getting the people off that packet.
at whack, n.1
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