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Listener (N.Z.) 28 Jan. 20: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Echelon men are naturally known as the ‘Old Digs’ – men who were there almost before the Pyramids [DNZE].at old dig (n.) under dig, n.4
Listener (N.Z.) 28 Jan. 20: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Echelon men are naturally known as the ‘Old Digs’ – men who were there almost before the Pyramids [DNZE]. Listener 20 Nov. 835/3: That’s no help to the man who’s driving by the seat of his pants, as we used to say in the R.A.F. police .at fly by the seat of one’s pants (v.) under fly, v.
Listener 20 Nov. 818/2: His fellow shiners disregarded the L.C.C. by-law, because very few windows are equipped with metal hooks for holding on a safety belt .at shiner, n.3
Listener 3 Sept. 351/1: This is the way in which we shoot down cosmological theories.at shoot down (v.) under shoot, v.
Listener 29 Oct. 748/2: Poor Dr. Bronowski seems fated to the pas seul [...] His fellows stodge around, looking severe and sagacious and sound and sensible.at stodge, v.
Listener 2 Nov. 737/3: Two contributors, finally, bat for Christianity .at bat for (v.) under bat, v.
Listener 31 May 967/1: She offered a gorblimey cheerfulness .at gorblimey, adj.
Listener 11 Jan. 90/3: All that ‘samey’ food and the lack of service.at samey (adj.) under same, adj.
Listener 13 Dec. 1024/3: A cautionary tale concerning a real steaming nit of a British civilian.at steaming, adj.1
Listener 14 June 1043/3: The Lake Lovers is a weirdie.at weirdie, n.
Listener 25 Mar. 461/3: He paints the old China of bound feet, [...] the endless dinners, the mistress (sleeping dictionary) as fragile as a butterfly.at sleeping dictionary (n.) under sleep, v.
Listener 9 Sept. 373/2: On ‘stag nights’ it [i.e. the entertainment] is pretty blue.at stag night (n.) under stag, adj.
Listener 8 Sept. 336/2: Favoured by [...] some men of the market place, whose ideas I believe to be airy-fairy.at airy-fairy, adj.
Listener 9 June 831/2: With only so much national advertising to go round [...], the oldest commercial stations are feeling the draught as well.at feel the draught (v.) under feel, v.
Listener 28 Dec. 849: The New York Spy is a useful and terribly bright guide to New York, conscientiously kvelling through ‘the city’s pleasures’.at kvell, v.
Listener 21 Dec. 802/1: If a man spoke rather loudly...keeping his vowels open, then he was an Upper. If he attempted this and just failed, then he was a Middle. If..his voice carried the flavour of the area in which he was born, then he was a Lower.at upper, n.1
Listener 28 Mar. 410: The US Embassy provided a focus for an extreme Left ‘demo’ against ‘fascist brutality’ in Vietnam.at demo, n.1
Listener 9 May 601/2: I was occasionally loused-up myself, and people, rather than pass me, used to go on the other side of the road .at louse up, v.
Listener 19 Dec. 810/3: The Squadron-Leader and I decided to give a party — what the Squadron-Leader called a proper whizzo party with marks on the ceiling .at whizzo, adj.
Listener 14 Mar. 352/3: If Johnny zonked, it would be bad for my book.at zonk, v.
Listener 3 Apr. 470/1: No music is more recuperative than Mozart’s and, in the therapy stakes, none runs it as close as Webern’s.at stakes, n.
Listener 13 Nov. 660/1: They booed this great man, and he had to take it. It was part of the thing — no tall poppies. You’ve got to do well, but there’s supposed not to be any sense of excellence making any difference to human equality. at tall poppy (n.) under tall, adj.
Listener 17 Apr. 534/3: He’s a football widower because I’m the one who’s always trooping away to football matches.at -widower, n.
Listener 22 Oct. 540: It can mind-blow a long-haired GI to know he’ll have to live straighter to survive in Sweden than in the Army.at mind-blow, v.
Listener (NZ) 12 Oct. XII: It’s going to be a real boozeroo [DNZE].at boozeroo, n.
Listener 20 Aug. n.p.: They are what the Underground would call breadheads [KH].at breadhead (n.) under bread, n.1
Listener (NZ) 12 Oct. 13: ‘Are you going to marry her?’ I said. ‘Why should I? Let go of me, you goorie,’ he said [DNZE].at goorie, n.
Listener 22 Oct. 560: What is it that kept these young film-heads away?at -head, sfx
Listener 21 Dec. 8: Another guy got black-mailed into taking a Sheila half-way around Pig Island [DNZE].at Pig Island, n.
Listener 86 348: There is Garvey, snout baron and hard man; ‘Spasm’ Horricks, the epileptic sucker-up [etc.].at baron, n.
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