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[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 131: You turn down a few birth-control ads. every year.
at ad, n.1
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 50: Come along to the so-and-so for a drink: it’s the only place where they can mix a so-and-so.
at so-and-so, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 149: Betty has found herself a fine-looking animal who’s in such a bad way that he’s gnawing her right shoulder on the dance floor.
at animal, n.1
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 197: The bad cheque artist does not hesitate, nor stammer blushingly.
at -artist, sfx
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 47: It looks as though I have made a B.F. of myself!
at BF, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 144: Did you ever see such a nasty bit of work?
at nasty bit of work, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 231: Bust him one on the snoot!
at bust, v.1
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 104: If the lid blows off Danzig the hotel will be empty within twenty-four hours and we shall be bust.
at bust, adj.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 199: The French are very hard on people who use indiarubber cheques.
at rubber cheque, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 112: Come out and say chin-chin to them.
at chin-chin!, excl.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 65: She’s liable to cut up rough if I cart her for the evening.
at cut up rough, v.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 57: No more deadbeats in the hotel.
at deadbeat, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 220: The drunken Indian princeling [...] carelessly handed a sheaf of milles to a blond gold-digger.
at gold-digger, n.1
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 106: What did you slip in his drink? Knock-out drops?
at knockout drops, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 50: I named the same old martini [...] after about a dozen floosies.
at floozy, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 65: Palm Beach is open and we might have a flutter.
at flutter, n.1
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 184: Hell’s bells! For God’s sake don’t let Betty know I brought Mona back with me.
at hell’s bells! (excl.) under hell, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 229: You and Mr Whitely and the Hunyaks – meaning my other two bosses – can take care of the brandy.
at hunyak, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 73: That Mrs Whitely and the Rooshian dishwasher was whooping it up a bit last night.
at whoop it up, v.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 41: ‘Jumpin’ Jehosophat!’ exclaimed Mike [...] ‘that dame sure has hollow legs.’.
at jumping Jehoshaphat!, excl.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 29: You suggest, I gather, that I may know more of financial jiggery-pokery than that precious crew of Marseillais pickpockets.
at jiggery-pokery, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 11: It is as well [...] that I do not have to kill these macaronis.
at macaroni, n.1
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 64: We soon had our muzzles deeply into goblets of dry champagne laced with brandy.
at muzzle, n.1
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 40: Fancy lettin’ yourselves be pushed around by a little sawn-off runt with a Charlie Chaplain moustache!
at sawed-off, adj.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 200: If at the end of three days you have not been able to raise the wind, I shall be compelled to hand you over to the police.
at raise the wind (v.) under raise, v.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 180: I hope her husband doesn’t roll up here.
at roll up, v.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 68: What did you expect me to do? Come and sandbag you and drag you down by force?
at sandbag, v.1
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 180: ‘Naturally!’ replied the young scribe.
at scribe, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 91: It’s France’s big day. Storming of the Bastille and all that. There’ll be a tremendous schemozzle in the village that night.
at shemozzle, n.
[UK] S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 231: Bust him one on the snoot!
at snoot, n.
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