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(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 282: We all of us bore a bob.at bear a bob, v.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 282: We all of us bore a bob. (trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) III 43: I was not such a fool as to quarrel with my bread-and-butter.at quarrel with (one’s) bread and butter (v.) under bread and butter, n.1
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 173: If it took, well and good! if not, we had only to cut and run.at cut and run, v.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 122: Donna Alfonsa de Solis, and old devotee [...] always keeps her servant at her apron-strings.at apron-strings, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 113: I need not go to a jeweller to be told I am an ass!at ass, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 158: Signor don Raphael presented himself to my view, like a phoenix from the ashes of the old bead-counter!at bead-counter (n.) under bead, n.2
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 116: We had both of us bird-limed our fingers at our departure from Oviedo.at birdlime, n.1
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 50: I will strip this holy father to his birth-day suit.at birthday suit, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 133: I should never had known, but for that blab Inésilla.at blab, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 260: These four jolly blades began with such hearty salutations, as if they had not met for these ten years.at blade, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 211: As for me, less grieved at having drawn a blank in the lottery of love, than rejoiced at getting my neck out of an halter, I returned to my master’s.at draw a blank (v.) under blank, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 183: The master appeared in person [...] which stretched the old fellow’s blinkers into a stare.at blinkers, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) III 99: The marquis de Marialva had at first taken a fancy to Narcissa [...] when that cockatrice Estella contrived to fly blow the bill of fare, and transfer the banquet to her own untainted charms.at fly-blow, v.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 82: I was inclined to be sociable, and to parley a little to get rid of the blue devils.at blue devils, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) III 227: Nunez [...] looked rather blue at this conclusion.at blue, adj.1
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 33: He sung the same songs repeatedly [...] so that when, after saying ten or twelve lines after him for three months together, I got to boggle through them without missing.at boggle, v.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 216: You may often meet with characters among them, to the full as eccentric as any bona roba of the green-room.at bona roba, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 195: We polished up the brass upon our foreheads a little. It was time now to bounce and swagger.at bounce, v.1
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 129: The lady of all work crammed a napkin under the old boy’s chin.at old boy, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 195: We polished up the brass upon our foreheads a little. It was time now to bounce and swagger.at brass, n.1
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 257: If all my brethren of the blue balls were like me, we should not be treated so scurvily.at brother (of the)..., n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 74: The old lady brushed off, to go and usher him in.at brush, v.1
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) 11 105: They play the comedy of love in many masks; and are the prude, the coquette, or the virago, as they fall in with the quiz, the coxcomb, or the bully.at bully, n.1
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 226: Each scholar [...] went humbly to receive a book from the hands of the bum-jerker.at bum-jerker (n.) under bum, n.1
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 228: No sooner was it buzzed about Madrid, that the duke raised the siege, than a new host of would-be conquerors appeared.at buzz, v.1
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 235: I will give the go-by to those rascally creditors.at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 255: He rings the changes of my affairs; and tells me that I am spending principal and interest ... A beast!at ring the changes, v.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 207: Let me see how many rampant chaps have been brought to their bearings in that house, without the dear deluded husband being waked.at chap, n.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) I 81: Never mind, Gil Blas, thought I, do not be chicken-hearted.at chicken-hearted, adj.
(trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 94: If an angel from heaven were to whisper wisdom in one ear, and your cousin her mortal chit-chat in the other, I am afraid the angel might whistle for an audience.at chitchat, n.1
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