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Peace in Our Time choose

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[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 25: Again Kenneth’s mouth was pursed. ‘Absobloominglutely final.’.
at absoballylutely, adv.
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 75: ‘Bung-ho, you chaps—’ ‘Bung-ho, Miss Massingham.’.
at bung ho!, excl.
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 31: That ghastly chit from Cox’s, informing him [...] that he was overdrawn.
at chit, n.
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 108: Kenneth jumped inwardly. Crimes!
at crimes!, excl.
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 200: You’re on velvet right enough!
at right enough, phr.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 168: That’s all right kiddie.
at kiddy, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 30: It was stupid [...] the way fellows rotted about [...] smoking too many yellow perils.
at yellow peril, n.
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 229: The more she tried to understand the more he ‘played up’.
at play up, v.
[UK] 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.
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 12: ‘And how’s the Major, sir?’ ‘Top-hole-ski.’.
at -ski, sfx
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 116: Don’t let that worry you, sonnie.
at son, n.1
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] O. Onions Peace in Our Time 125: He was [...] at most a ‘super’ or walking-on gentleman.
at super, n.1
[UK] 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.
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