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The White Rose choose

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[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 191: Gerard had picked up some experience knocking about the world.
at knock about, v.1
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 225: It’s not all beer and skittles managing a theatre.
at all beer and skittles, phr.
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 79: Holloa, Snipy! come in, won’t you, and have a B. and S.?
at b and s, n.
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 206: A merry blue-eyed boy, fresh from Eton, who could do ‘thimble-rig,’ ‘prick the garter,’ ‘bones’ with his face blackened.
at bones, n.1
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 229: Gerard, too pulled his freight back to Richmond.
at pull (one’s) freight (v.) under freight, n.
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 57: I shouldn’t like to be a ‘Grabby’ [...] I’d rather be a private in the cavalry than an officer in the regiment of feet!
at grabby, n.
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 195: I’m what they call a hack, I believe, on a penny paper.
at hack, n.1
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 178: By h-ll, I will!
at hell!, excl.
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose II 120: He mopped up his champagne, though, pretty freely.
at mop (up), v.
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 27: To use the master-bricklayer’s expression, such a ‘choice piece of goods’.
at piece of goods (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose (1899) 225: A merry blue-eyed boy, fresh from Eton, who could do ‘thimble-rig.’.
at thimble-rig, n.
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 57: Don’t you funk being spun?
at spin, v.1
[UK] G.J. Whyte-Melville White Rose 191: Step round and take a toothful of something short to our better acquaintance.
at toothful, n.
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