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[UK] Windsor Mag. 4 117: Half a mo’, half a mo’! I’m king pin on this outing and you c’n give your advice when it’s asked.
at half a mo, n.1
[UK] Windsor Mag. 4 32: There certainly was something rather — well — surprising. It was the first time Mr. Buffum’s hand had ever controlled machinery. ‘And that's abso-bloomin-lutely nothing to when you first feel her start’.
at absoballylutely, adv.
[UK] Windsor Mag. 4 305/1: Together the two did the disappearing act.
at do a/the disappearing act (v.) under disappearing act, n.
[UK] Windsor Mag. 4 117: ‘You Londoners are the dizzy limit,’ observed Mr. Rawson with contumely.
at dizzy limit (n.) under dizzy, adj.
[UK] Windsor Mag. 16 293/2: ‘It’s an awful fag coming down here all dolled up, isn’t it?’ he said. ‘But, bless you, these old devils are so blind they wouldn’t notice you if you came in your pyjamas!’.
at doll up, v.
[UK] Windsor Mag. 16 293/2: ‘It’s an awful fag coming down here all dolled up, isn’t it?’ he said. ‘But, bless you, these old devils are so blind they wouldn’t notice you if you came in your pyjamas!’.
at dolled up, adj.
[UK] Windsor Mag. 4 158/1: A Biblically minded pupil had, on the analogy of the Samson-Delilah case, come to the conclusion that were he shorn of his face-fittings, he would ipso facto lose his wonderful skill with the cane.
at face fittings (n.) under face, n.
[UK] Windsor Mag. 4 163: My aunt said the other day that she didnt know what a rotter was.
at rotter, n.1
[UK] Windsor Mag. 6 126/2: He began to laugh, and to say they mustn’t lose that 7.30 to London, or the ‘rag’ would be rolling up without her and the ‘stage damager’ would be using ‘cuss words’.
at damager, n.
[UK] Windsor Mag. XXII 71: ‘Nay [...] I ride not ahorse while a lady uses the marrowbone stage,’ and I got from the saddle and threw the reins loose.
at marrowbone stage, the, n.
[UK] Windsor Mag. 86 24/2: Bugs to yer, yer clod-brained prunes!
at clod-brained (adj.) under clod, n.1
[UK] Windsor Mag. 88 508: The brave jingle their medals as they sink into armchairs at the club, while the jelly-bellied have soft white arms to comfort them.
at jelly-bellied (adj.) under jelly, n.1
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