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[UK] Indep. 54 2035: Two or three salient facts will account for the milk in the cocoanut. The Legislature of 1899 [...] enacted a law creating a State Tax Commission [etc.].
at milk in the coco(a)nut (n.) under milk, n.
[UK] Indep. 26 Nov. 2794/2: The victualing department was presided over by two heathen grub spoilers, who [...] could not boil water without burning it .
at grub-spoiler (n.) under grub, n.2
[UK] Indep. 2 Apr. 771: I’ve been thirty-five years at the hackin’ business in Brooklyn and Manhattan [HDAS].
at hack, v.3
[UK] in Indep. 22 June 1938: The man of the tenement? Oh, he broods and ‘dopes’ his life away [HDAS].
at dope, v.3
[UK] Indep. 23 May 1186: So we were only four hands on deck, outside [...] Aleck Jackson, our negro cook, a thoro sailor from backbone to breakfast time .
at from arsehole to breakfast (time) under arsehole, n.
[UK] Indep. 23 Apr. 908/2: We want men as is sailors [...] No dock rats, ner deck swabs, ner turnpike sailors’ll suit here .
at turnpike sailor, n.
[UK] Indep. 29 Nov. 17/1: The highly respected beancounters at Price Waterhouse have failed to recognise that times are changing in the City.
at bean counter (n.) under bean, n.1
[UK] Indep. 7 Nov. 2/4: Police fear Acid House parties [...] provide an ideal opportunity for professional criminals to sell drugs, particularly the ‘designer’ drug Ecstasy favoured in the Acid House culture.
at acid house party (n.) under acid, n.1
[UK] Indep. 30 Oct. n.p.: Prototype bodice-ripper with 17th-century wild child Lorna [...] falling for her clan’s avowed enemy.
at bodice-ripper, n.
[UK] Indep. 5 June 30: Each player has a specific training routine, and meals are carefully monitored. Muesli and fruit for breakfast – at least until the coach is absent, then it is the full Monty.
at monty, n.
[UK] Independent 9 Jan. 28/8: Socially, football has been followed by the lower orders, while golf and cricket has attracted poshos.
at posho, n.
[UK] Independent 14 July 🌐 They are visited by a priest who warns them that Satan patrols this patch of land – though the priest seems a few wafers short of a communion, so this news may or may not be true.
at two wafers short of a communion under ...short of..., adj.
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 32: They banged him up in a mental home near Milton Keynes.
at bang up, v.2
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 38: Glen would shoot the breeze with them, ask them about their families.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 40: You don’t have to see those people with their guts all over everything or burnt up or with their heads bung off.
at bung, v.1
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 16: Hackney dog track was a dump, a kazi.
at carsey, n.
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 6: Having been bamboozled by a con-man on his doorstep.
at con-man, n.
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 36: He enjoys his work, rolling along dirt roads [...] air conditioning cranked up high.
at crank, v.
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 36: We had three large groups come over last month, but it’s been pretty dadgum quiet since then.
at dad-gum, adj.
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 32: According to Drif, a ‘dog’ is a book which is so unsaleable that you can hear it barking a mile off.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 19: ‘Knocking out’ dogs by doping them is not an easy thing to do.
at dope, v.1
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 36: Gaw-dang! Big ole coyote!
at gaw, n.
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 42: His education in hustling comes from the City, where he worked trading equities.
at hustle, v.
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 20: All these elements help create what Parker calls ‘the buzz’, transforming the usual desultory punt into a palpable occasion.
at punt, n.1
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 18: Danny’s a big punter.
at punter, n.
[UK] Indep. Mag. 6 Aug. 32: He spent more than ten years weeviling through charity shops [...] schlepping big bags of tradeables.
at schlep, v.
[UK] Independent (London) 10 June 🌐 the New York Times asked Julia Child, the cookery guru, to compose a suitable menu for a pre-electric chair meal - even weighing the merits of rival wines.
at electric chair meal (n.) under electric, adj.
[UK] Indep. 16 May n.p.: A Year with Swollen Appendices, his chronicle of 1995, complete with batso speculations (‘28th May. Woke at 4.30. Funny thing – in Ireland I rarely get an erection...’).
at batso (adj.) under bats, adj.
[UK] M. Newall ‘Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght’ in Indep. Rev. 26 Dec. 1: The grebo was giving it alle of thatte.
at give it all that (v.) under all that, adj.
[UK] M. Newall ‘Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght’ in Indep. Rev. 26 Dec. 1: Queene Brenda has gotte the arseayke over this.
at arseache (n.) under arse, n.
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