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Evan Harrington choose

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[UK] W.D. O’Connor Harrington 184: By the great horn spoon! I’d just like to have the stringin’ up of them law-abiders.
at by the great horn spoon! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington I 35: I drank a pint of ale bang off.
at bang off (adv.) under bang, adv.
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington I 37: It was her money, of course. ‘Rich as Croesus, and as wicked as the black man below!’ as dear papa used to say.
at black man (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington I 248: The ball, indeed, was dropping straight into the hands of [...] the long-hit-off, he who never was known to miss a catch – butter-fingered beast! – he let the ball slip through his fingers.
at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington I 175: Oh, no! dang that!
at dang, v.
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington I 178: Dang’d if I didn’t think ’twere that Garge of our’n.
at dang, v.
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington I 197: They all move our pity. That’s how they get over us. She has diddled you, and she would diddle me, and diddle us all — diddle the devil, I dare say.
at diddle, v.2
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington III 280: Mama displeases me in consenting to act as house-keeper to old Grumpus.
at grumpus, n.
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington I 92: A scabby sixpence?
at scabby, adj.1
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington I 136: Gad, you blow us up out of the House. What would you do in? Smithereens, I think!
at smithereens, n.
[UK] G. Meredith Evan Harrington III 78: You are now at liberty. Ta-ta, as soon as you please.
at ta-ta, n.
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