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Rumpole and the Golden Thread choose

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[UK] J. Mortimer Rumpole and the Golden Thread 187: I must say it’s all a G.M.B.U. [...] Grand Military Balls-up. [Ibid.] 188: That’s what the row was all about, wasn’t it. A Grand Military Shout-up.
at g.m.b.u., n.
[UK] J. Mortimer Rumpole and the Golden Thread 104: The guv’nor put me down for Lawnhurst at birth.
at guvnor, n.
[UK] J. Mortimer Rumpole and the Golden Thread 188: He had a bad case of the M.T.Fs [...] Must Touch Flesh!
at m.t.f., n.
[UK] J. Mortimer Rumpole and the Golden Thread 192: ‘They can’t stand him [...] He’s not P.L.U. exactly.’ ‘People Like Us?’ I hazarded a guess.
at p.l.u., n.
[UK] J. Mortimer Rumpole and the Golden Thread 105: I never had the ‘parlez-vous’ for the Foreign Office.
at parleyvoo, n.
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