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Austin Elliot choose

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[UK] H. Kingsley Austin Elliot I 112: How about the two bulls and half a bender.
at bender, n.1
[UK] H. Kingsley Austin Elliot I 129: Austin played very bad, [...] led out strong suits of trumps without any suit to follow, bottled them when his partner led them first time round.
at bottle up, v.
[UK] H. Kingsley Austin Elliot I 185: I never said nothink to you, but without provercation you tells me to go to Putney. [...] I’m blessed if I don’t go, and you may take your change out of that!
at take one’s change out of (v.) under change, n.
[UK] H. Kingsley Austin Elliot I 34: Austin, expressing himself in that low slangy way [...] said that my Lords were ‘uncommonly larky’.
at larky, adj.
[UK] (ref. to 1845) H. Kingsley Austin Elliot 116: Now, in the year 1845, telling a man to go to Putney, was the same as telling a man to go to the deuce.
at go to Putney (on a pig)! (excl.) under Putney, n.
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