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Conversational Hints for Young Shooters choose

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[UK] R.C. Lehmann Conversational Hints 191: It’s because they’re ‘just a bit chippy,’ owing to sitting up late, or smoking too much.
at chippy, adj.1
[UK] R.C. Lehmann Conversational Hints 147: I don’t mind if I do have a chunk of cake.
at chunk, n.1
[UK] R.C. Lehmann Conversational Hints 186: The Proser put up his dukes, and let fly with both of them, one after another, at Dullard’s conk.
at put up one’s dukes (v.) under duke, n.3
[UK] R.C. Lehmann Conversational Hints 241: Done again, by the living Jingo!
at jingo!, excl.
[UK] R.C. Lehmann Conversational Hints 177: Ta, ta, old cock – keep your pecker up!
at keep one’s pecker up (v.) under pecker, n.2
[UK] R.C. Lehmann Conversational Hints 202: Don’t you be alarmed, old quill-driver, they’ll never run a strike of that kind for more than a day.
at quill-driver (n.) under quill, n.1
[UK] R.C. Lehmann Conversational Hints 147: I don’t mind if I do have a chunk of cake and a whitewash of sherry.
at whitewash, n.
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