1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 25: Again Kenneth’s mouth was pursed. ‘Absobloominglutely final.’.at absoballylutely, adv.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 75: ‘Bung-ho, you chaps—’ ‘Bung-ho, Miss Massingham.’.at bung ho!, excl.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 31: That ghastly chit from Cox’s, informing him [...] that he was overdrawn.at chit, n.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 37: ‘I rather fancied Lovelightly.’ ‘Lovelightly? Not a hope in Hell!’.at not a hope in hell under hell, n.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 203: And did you give us all this pi-jaw about our morals during the war?at pi-jaw, n.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 162: The nigger was not a negro at all, but probably an Indian or Burmese [...] A couple of tables farther along sat other niggers (Japanese).at nigger, n.1
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 30: It was stupid [...] the way fellows rotted about [...] smoking too many yellow perils.at yellow peril, n.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 229: The more she tried to understand the more he ‘played up’.at play up, v.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 30: It was stupid [...] the way fellows rotted about, filling themselves up with a lot of drinks.at rot about (v.) under rot, v.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 125: That other chap, murmuring to himself as he walked, didn’t look altogether ‘on the spot’.at on the spot (adj.) under spot, n.3
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 118: She raised a stink because she wasn’t in Tatler last week.at raise a stink (v.) under stink, n.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 54: ‘Want to buy a car?’ ‘Rather have an American-X—crumbs, they do streak it!’.at streak, v.
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 125: He was [...] at most a ‘super’ or walking-on gentleman.at super, n.1
1923 O. Onions Peace in Our Time 165: Come along out of it, Eddie — you’re as tight as a handcart.at tight as a tick (adj.) under tight, adj.