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Mrs Caudle’s Curtain Lectures choose

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[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 76: Everybody could see that you didn’t care a pin for me.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 10: But how, I should like to know, are people to insure who make ducks and drakes of their five pounds?
at ducks and drakes, n.1
[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 12: It’s brutal, Mr. Caudle. It’s ve-ve-ve-ry bru-tal.
at brutal, adj.
[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 10: You should come home in Christian time, not at half-past twelve.
at Christian, adj.
[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 79: Upon my life, Mr. Caudle, that’s very cool.
at cool, adj.
[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 25: Going and dressing yourself up in an apron like a turnpike man – for that’s what you look like.
at turnpike man, n.
[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 9: A parcel of pot-companions.
at pot companion (n.) under pot, n.1
[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 47: I’m sure those Briggs girls – the little minxes! – put me into such a pucker.
at in a pucker under pucker, n.
[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 37: You know how you love pickles; and how we sometimes tiff about ’em.
at tiff, v.3
[UK] D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 18: Nice clothes, I shall get too, trapesing through weather like this.
at trapes, v.
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