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[UK] Lytton Money IV 4: frantz: (producing a pair of small clothes, which Toke examines) Your master is von beggar [...] toke: I accept the abridgements, but you’ve forgotten to line the pockets.
at abridgements, n.
[UK] Lytton Money III iii: Rates, taxes, riddles and botheration!
at botheration, n.
[UK] Lytton Money III iii: I’m on the rack! Be cool, Evelyn! Take care, my dear boy.
at cool, adj.
[UK] Lytton Money IV ii: blount: He borrowed seven hundred pounds of me! glossmore: And six hundred of me! sir john: And five hundred of me! stout: Oh! A regular Jeremy Diddler!
at diddler, n.2
[UK] Lytton Money III iii: Smooth is drinking lemonade. Keeps his head clear. Monstrous clever dog!
at dog, n.2
[UK] Lytton Money V i: Oh, he must be done up!
at done up, adj.1
[UK] Lytton Money V i: Gad, my blood’s up and I won’t be tweated in this way.
at gad!, excl.
[UK] Lytton Money III i: I will lose as much as I please [...] and if he presume to spy on my losses, hang me if I don’t lose Sir John himself into the bargain!
at hang me! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Lytton Money V iii: Evelyn! I like you. I’m rich, and anything I can do to get you out of your hobble will give me an excuse to grumble for the rest of my life.
at hobble, n.
[UK] Lytton Money III iii: Flat, a pony on the odd twick. That’s wight.
at pony, n.
[UK] M. Amis Money 253: The Fiasco is still in custody. I keep meaning to go along and spring it from the pound. But I can’t be fucked.
at fucked, adj.1
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