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[UK] L. Oliphant Piccadilly 78: That I should have afterwards changed my mind, and answered the advertisement of the committee, which appeared in the ‘agony’ column of the ‘Times’.
at agony column (n.) under agony, n.
[UK] L. Oliphant Piccadilly 130: ‘I am awfully done,’ said Spiffy. ‘I never went to bed at all last night.’.
at done, adj.
[UK] L. Oliphant Piccadilly 127: Only the fag-end of the diplomatic corps had responded.
at fag end, n.
[UK] L. Oliphant Piccadilly 149: The free and easy ‘Frank, old fellow’ and ‘slap on the back’ style.
at old fellow, n.
[UK] L. Oliphant Piccadilly 90: ‘What does the – ’ I am afraid I mentally said ‘old girl’ – ‘want, I wonder?’.
at old gal, n.
[UK] L. Oliphant Piccadilly 287: I have hit it.
at hit it, v.
[UK] L. Oliphant Piccadilly 99: It was the ‘pick-me-up’ I always get at Harris’s, the apothecary in St. James’s Street.
at pick-me-up, n.
[UK] L. Oliphant Piccadilly 134: I thought I should be most likely to hear the truth by applying to the Honourable Spiffington.
at spiffy, adj.
[UK] L. Oliphant Piccadilly 141: I even used to feel it when I was in the diplomatic service, and received a severe ‘wigging.’.
at wigging, n.
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