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John O’London’s Weekly 22 Feb. 571: You have heard the charge of So-and-so.at so-and-so, n.
John O’London’s Weekly 22 Feb. 571: You have heard the charge of So-and-so. John O’London’s Weekly 7 Jan. 448/3: You married men may have better halves, but we bachelors have better quarters.at better half, n.
John O’London’s Weekly 7 Jan. 459/2: ‘Bless my dear eyes,’ said Mr. Roker, shaking his head.at bless my heart! (excl.) under bless, v.1
John O’London’s Weekly 4 Feb. 570/1: President Harding has thrown a small etymological bombshell by using the word ‘normalcy’.at bombshell, n.
John O’London’s Weekly 457/3: Cogging is another good old word, signifying cheating by means of loaded dice or by flattery.at cog, v.
John O’London’s Weekly 22 Feb. 578: Colonel Harvey [...] was on his staff as a ‘kid reporter’ of nineteen.at kid, n.1
John O’London’s Weekly 22 Feb. 585: ‘Up to the nines,’ which he defines rightly enough as ‘to perfection.’.at up to the nines, phr.
John O’London’s Weekly 4 Feb. 591/3: [advert for Chatto & Windus publisher] A sparkling and delightful novel. ‘Do not by any chance miss “Crome Yellow,” in which Mr. Aldous Huxley ticks off this present world and its vagaries.’.at tick off, v.1
John O’London’s Weekly 4 Feb. 591/2: The ‘Pikers’ [...] are a wandering homeless lot who haunt the wilds of Sussex, scraping together a bare existence selling blackberries, mushrooms, and the like to people in the neighbouring villages and towns.at piker, n.
John O’London’s Weekly 7 Jan. 463/1: Probably Edgar Wallace’s best ‘shocker’ – and I use the term in no derogatory sense – was ‘The Four Just Men’.at shilling shocker (n.) under shilling, n.
John O’London’s Weekly 7 Jan. 450/3: That sinister spot, at the junction of what are now the Bayswater Road and Edgeware Road, [stood] the Triple Tree, on which two notorious highway men had been hanged.at triple tree, n.
John O’London’s Weekly 7 Jan. 459/2: The leathern-hearted turnkey of the Fleet Prison was not a man to recall the whopping of a coal-heaver with a sigh [...] he had seen too much violence.at whopping, n.
John O’London’s Weekly 22 Feb. 576: Mexico is being slowly but surely ‘Yankeeized.’.at Yankeeized (adj.) under yankee, n.1
John O’London’s Weekly in DSUE (1984).at rub-a-dub, n.2
John O’London’s Weekly 9 June in DSUE (1984).at jack (and jill), n.
John O’London’s Weekly 9 June in DSUE (1984).at Baden-Powell, n.
John o’ London’s Weekly 8 Dec. n.p.: As in ‘Once I happened to mention to [a] manager... that my children would like to see the pantomime he was producing. “Right you are, old man,” he said, “give me a ring any time and I’ll see there’s a Charles James for them.” It took me some moments to realise that he meant a box, and I suppose that no one unacquainted with the peculiarities for [? of] rhyming slang would have realised it at all’.at charles james, n.
John O’London’s Weekly 9 June in DSUE (1984).at grapevine, n.2
John O’London’s Weekly 9 June in DSUE (1984).at ivory pearl, n.
John o’ London’s Weekly 9 Jun. in DSUE (1984).at jeremiah, n.
John O’London’s Weekly 9 June in Franklyn (1960).at ocean pearl, n.
John o’ London’s 21 Sept. 318/3: But Dunham was more than a washer-upper.at washer-upper, n.
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