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[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 16: It’ll be blame inconvenient.
at blame, adv.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 235: Through these insulting port-holes she stared at Sir Henry and blatted, ‘Maybe the poor darlings of teachers haven’t enough cash to stick it out here any longer, and they got to ‘scamper’. [...] Everyone, but especially Sir Henry and perhaps Roxanna herself, seemed to consider her tone offensive.
at blat, v.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 25: We got the bulge on Europe not only in banking and university work.
at have the bulge on (v.) under bulge, n.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 1: It’s his cluck of a wife that really gets me down [...] always criticizing some poor bunny.
at bunny, n.1
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 239: You can’t see me busted like this.
at busted, adj.1
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 106: Hay was a major in the last war, and a champ pistol shot!
at champ, adj.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 164: Born here in Florry, but lived in England, and chummed with the Yankee troops here.
at chum, v.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 186: They’ll make my ancestor Lorry the Magnificent, Serial One, look like a ribbon clerk.
at ribbon clerk, n.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 166: This fellow is a clinker.
at clinker, n.7
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 1: It’s his cluck of a wife that really gets me down [...] always criticizing some poor bunny.
at cluck, n.1
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 172: Nowdays he usually called Olivia ‘Sister’, ‘Cookie’ or ‘Helena Troy’.
at cookie, n.1
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 183: ‘He would have been so useful as a singing cowboy – if he can sing.’ ‘If he can punch cattle.’.
at punch cows, v.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 226: See you to your bachelor digs, Rox?
at digs, n.1
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 237: You fired him – remember? – for laughing when a dinky gilt chair busted under you.
at dinky, adj.1
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 210: French drugstore cowboys and Norwegian artists and Swiss professors.
at drugstore cowboy (n.) under drugstore, n.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 62: If you’re one of these independent females that insist on paying their own share, I don’t mind. We can go dutch.
at go Dutch (v.) under Dutch, adj.1
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 245: But then I saw you all hated me and despised me for bawling him out – shanty Irish, flannel-mouth, nuisance!
at flannel mouth, n.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 55: I’m going to get a D Minus in her class [...] She’d just efficiently flunk me.
at flunk, v.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 1: He’s an absolute hick, and he’s about as much of an architect as my left foot.
at my left foot!, excl.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 163: I’m going to collect as many facts [...] as that old gas-bag, Belfont, has in maybe twenty years.
at gasbag, n.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 62: Lone lady grinds don’t often get invited to dinner.
at grind, n.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 184: Just a country babe! Say I’d hate to write to the registrar in whatever hayseed county you really come from and ask him your real birth date!
at hayseed, adj.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 101: A ‘new Chevvy, a swell two-tone-colour job’.
at job, n.2
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 186: They’ll want their orders obeyed on the jump.
at on the jump under jump, n.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 46: Hell, I used to skip down to Florida, one time, and enjoy yanking in a mean tarpon.
at mean, adj.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 205: But naturally she was miffed – you can’t blame her.
at miffed, adj.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 185: That woman has been trying to nab him. She takes advantage of his good nature.
at nab, v.1
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 39: Hay! Is Europe all played out?
at played (out), adj.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 111: So naive in believing that every woman ought to be a college-campus petter!
at petter, n.
[US] S. Lewis World So Wide 239: I’m not a round-heel like Livy.
at roundheels, n.
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