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[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 302: ‘They were very indigestible,’ he said quickly. ‘Good! [...] I wanted them to give you a belly-ache.’.
at belly-ache, n.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 151: ‘Wonder if Janet would have gone the whole way,’ flitted across his mind.
at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 206: Jimmie Henley says it is n’t so bad for a sophomore, but I ’m afraid that he ’s just stringing me along, trying to encourage me.
at string (along), v.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 239: That boy wins big pots too regularly and always loses the little ones. I bet he’s a cold-deck artist or something.
at artist, n.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 99: Now, the stuff we want to get at to-night is the poetry.
at get at, v.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 177: They’re Bessie Haines and Emma Gleeson; at least, that’s what they call themselves, and they’re rotten bags.
at bag, n.1
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 18: If I leave it around here, the biddy’ll get hold of it, and then God help us.
at biddy, n.2
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 75: You cheered and howled and serpentined and felt big as hell.
at big, adj.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 198: He was disgusted with himself, the undergraduates, and the fraternity; he felt that the college had bilked him.
at bilk, v.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 17: I have a hunch that college is n’t anything like what these old birds say it is.
at old bird, n.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 259: ‘I’m a blot,’ he declared mournfully.
at blot, n.1
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 156: You take their bluff for the real thing.
at bluff, n.1
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 113: There was excitement in the air; the college was beginning to stew and boil again.
at boil, v.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 274: The Prom was a brawl [...] a drunken brawl.
at brawl, n.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 293: Four years of studying and lectures and examinations, and the first time he bucked up against a bit of life he was licked.
at buck up (with), v.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 99: We are n’t going to get anything done if we just sit around and bull.
at bull, v.1
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 288: The monthly meetings were nothing but ‘bull fests,’ or as one cynical member put it, ‘We wear a gold helmet on our sweaters and chew the fat once a month’.
at bullfest (n.) under bull, n.6
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 198: Nu Delta, the perfect brotherhood! Bull!
at bull!, excl.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 77: Night after night the students gathered in groups in dormitory rooms and fraternity houses, discussing football, football, football; even religion and sex, the favorite topics for ‘bull sessions’ could not compete with football.
at bull session, n.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 191: Nonsense! Rot! Bunk! Sanford has n’t anything of the sort.
at bunk!, excl.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 46: For a moment I thought my head was going to bust.
at bust, v.1
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 18: You told me yourself that that stuff was catgut.
at catgut, n.2
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 102: It’s a goddamn good poem. It’s the cat’s pajamas.
at cat’s pyjamas, n.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 175: You chase off with those rats if you want to, but you leave Carver with me if you know what’s good for you.
at chase, v.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 155: I admit that lots of the fellows are chasing around with rats on the sly, but lots of them aren’t, too. More fellows go straight around this college than you think. I know a number that have never touched a woman.
at chase, v.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 311: They felt a bit chesty at the thought of that B.S. or A.B., but a little sentimental at the thought of leaving ‘old Sanford’.
at chesty, adj.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 288: The monthly meetings were nothing but ‘bull fests,’ or as one cynical member put it, ‘We wear a gold helmet on our sweaters and chew the fat once a month’.
at chew the fat, v.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 238: Hugh was obviously small money, and Allen had no time to waste on chicken-feed.
at chickenfeed, n.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 239: That boy wins big pots too regularly and always loses the little ones. I bet he’s a cold-deck artist or something.
at cold-deck artist (n.) under cold deck, n.
[UK] P. Marks Plastic Age 254: A man passed out cold.
at cold, adj.
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