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[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 38: If you think I’m going to hang round here like a bloody extra with the family handing me out the bird in fourteen different positions you’ve got another think coming.
at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 29: She’s the Old Person’s little bit of nonsense. Immensely decorative.
at bit of nonsense (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 73: Was I tickled! Pauline and Milly looking blue murder and poor little Cedric bleating.
at blue murder, n.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 219: ‘Gee,’ she said, ‘will that sound good! Boy, oh boy!’.
at boy!, excl.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 219: You think that when we’re married I’ll begin to work in some funny business.
at funny business, n.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 97: Well, for crying out loud [...] look who’s here.
at for crying out loud!, excl.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 248: You cut off and don’t worry about it.
at cut away (v.) under cut, v.2
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 109: A dollop of Emerald Oxide of Chromium.
at dollop, n.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 189: I’ve come to ‘fess up,’ like a good boy.
at fess, v.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 9: ‘You are going it,’ she added, squinting at Miss Bostock’s canvas.
at go it, v.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 121: Like hell it did!
at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 131: Chief Inspector? [...] That’d be one of the high-ups, wouldn’t it? Chief Inspector who?
at high-up, n.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 104: If I were you [...] I think I should feel a bit hipped about the money too.
at hipped, adj.1
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 30: ‘Oh, lud!’ Cedric complained.
at lud!, excl.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 224: Well, we’ll have to lump it.
at lump, v.1
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 182: Supposing Miss Orrincourt did monkey with the thermos.
at monkey, v.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 204: Running a murderer to earth is just a job to us, as copping a pickpocket is to the ordinary P.C.
at p.c., n.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 38: I don’t think your line of comedy with Barker is screamingly funny.
at screamingly, adv.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 191: All would have been well if Carol Able [...] hadn’t made out a water-tight alibi for that septic child.
at septic, adj.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 234: There, you’ll notice, are the marks round the lid where he had a shot at opening it.
at have a shot at (v.) under shot, n.1
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 152: Would you be good enough [...] to oblige me with Mrs Snips the Tailor’s Wife?
at snip, n.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 173: Milly [...] and Dessy steaming up the stairs.
at steam, v.2
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 191: Carol Able, who is so scientific and ‘un-thing’ that she’s sort of a monster.
at thing, the, n.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 124: ‘What’s he done?’ ‘Handed them the works.’.
at hand someone the works (v.) under works, the, n.
[UK] N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 64: ‘You can’t whack me,’ she shrieked.
at whack, v.1
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