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Fire Trumpet I 52: Ethel will lead you a life of it, or I’m a Trojan.at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
Fire Trumpet I 52: Ethel will lead you a life of it, or I’m a Trojan. Fire Trumpet I 104: If you don’t kill yourself with almighty blue fits, call me a nigger.at almighty, adj.
Fire Trumpet II 283: I suspect he’s drawn a bead with effect many a time on poor Tommy Atkins.at Tommy Atkins, n.
Fire Trumpet II 113: Those poetic fellows do talk awful bosh.at awful, adj.
Fire Trumpet II 133: I didn’t trot out the barker at first.at barker, n.1
Fire Trumpet I 163: Lucky that greedy beggar Jack didn’t know I had any more provender.at beggar, n.
Fire Trumpet III 239: Be jabers, but ye’d better knock off now.at bejabers!, excl.
Fire Trumpet II 198: This old bird was with me several years.at old bird, n.
Fire Trumpet III 76: There he is, by all that’s blue!at by all that’s blue! (excl.) under blue, adj.1
Fire Trumpet I 152: She rather hates the bullet-headed fool.at bullet-headed, adj.
Fire Trumpet II 190: He cadges a lot of ‘tickeys’ (threepenny-bits) out of his fellows.at cadge, v.
Fire Trumpet I 77: Yet there was Ethel carrying on furiously with this fellow, while he, Jeffreys, was sent to the wall.at carry on, v.
Fire Trumpet III 232: Poor Jack might have done, but he’s passed on his cheque.at pass in one’s checks (v.) under check, n.1
Fire Trumpet III 119: The most grotesque article of this out-of-keeping costume was his hat—a reduced ‘chimney-pot’.at chimney-pot (hat) (n.) under chimney, n.
Fire Trumpet I 220: According to the clod-hopping ideas of louts and scullery-maids.at clodhopping, adj.
Fire Trumpet I 234: Come and blow a cloud before you turn in.at blow a cloud (v.) under cloud, n.
Fire Trumpet III 26: A fine, smart fellow [...] A cool hand, too.at cool hand (n.) under cool, adj.
Fire Trumpet I 30: You better cut in with us; just look how well we live here.at cut in, v.
Fire Trumpet I 100: Give you a dollar* to five bob he’s twenty minutes from now. Is that on? (*Rix dollar, 1s.6d.).at dollar, n.1
Fire Trumpet I 49: He had ‘shaken down’ in Hick’s room, and the two had talked and smoked themselves to sleep.at shake down, v.
Fire Trumpet II 144: ‘Say, sonny,’ remarked the cabman [...] ‘The Kernel’s dustin’ your guv’nor’s jacket, ain’t he?’ For the row going on upstairs was in a measure audible in the street.at dust someone’s jacket (v.) under dust, v.1
Fire Trumpet I 220: C—come and have a what-sh-may call a eye-opener—hic!at eye-opener, n.1
Fire Trumpet I 75: A fat lot of good he’ll do.at fat lot (n.) under fat, adj.
Fire Trumpet II 201: ‘Faugh!’ he continued.at faugh!, excl.
Fire Trumpet II 31: What’s it to be—‘French’—Whisky?at French, n.
Fire Trumpet II 128: Fat lot of good they’ll do [...] A lot o’ greenhorns.at greenhorn, n.
Fire Trumpet III 20: Hallo; here’s a book!at hello!, excl.1
Fire Trumpet I 108: I never saw anything to beat that – by the holy poker I never did.at by the holy poker! (excl.) under holy poker, n.1
Fire Trumpet II 202: Look here, Payne, go and do the horizontal there on the sofa.at get horizontal (v.) under horizontal, adj.
Fire Trumpet I 148: It was only that humbugging old Garthorpe, who goes about preaching.at humbugging, adj.
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