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The Bread-Winner choose

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[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: You oughtn’t to let him get away with them. He only gets above himself.
at get above oneself (v.) under above oneself, adj.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act II: It would be awful fun.
at awful, adj.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: He’ll have to work like blazes.
at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: Let the little blighter say what he likes.
at blighter, n.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act II: I think he’s off his chump.
at off one’s chump under chump, n.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act II: Well, I’m dished.
at dished, adj.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: I don’t mind showing you young things that there’s life in the old dog yet.
at old dog, n.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act II: judy: It would be awful fun. Wouldn’t it, Pat? patrick: Not so dusty.
at not so dusty (adj.) under dusty, adj.1
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: Come along, young pie-face.
at pie-face, n.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act II: Whether he’s a gambler who wants a flutter for the excitement of it, or a fool who thinks he can make money.
at flutter, n.1
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: Oh, God, you are a gloom, Judy.
at gloom, n.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act II: It’s no good grousing.
at grouse, v.1
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act II: I’ve done my best. I’ve just sweated my guts out.
at sweat one’s guts out (v.) under gut, n.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner in Plays (1932) 239: Charles. It cost me a packet Alfred. And you’re not the only one.
at cost a packet (v.) under packet, n.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: Hullo, popsy-wopsy.
at popsy-wopsy, n.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act II: Now you popoffski, my dear.
at -ski, sfx
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act III: You’re just a silly, hysterical, sloppy schoolgirl.
at sloppy, adj.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act II: That tube, with all those people hurrying to catch their train.
at tube, n.1
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: I bet you walloped into the fatted calf [...] I managed to swallow a morsel of cold chicken.
at wallop, v.
[UK] W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: He had a whacking fat cheque in his pocket.
at whacking, adj.
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