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‘A Change of Views’ in High Spirits II 109: He had a knowledge, too, of practical mathematics, which enabled him to make a book upon every great racing event of the year.at book, n.
‘A Change of Views’ in High Spirits II 109: He had a knowledge, too, of practical mathematics, which enabled him to make a book upon every great racing event of the year. ‘An Aunt by Marriage’ in High Spirits I 301: It would be a dreadful come-down.at come-down, n.
‘Number Forty-Seven’ in High Spirits III 82: ‘Well, he was rather a down-looking cove.’ ‘Hang-dog?’ said I. ‘Well, yes.’.at down, adj.2
‘An Aunt by Marriage’ in High Spirits I 290: He drank like a gold-fish.at drink like a fish (v.) under drink, v.
‘The Confiscated Weeds’ in High Spirits I 71: Carker was in the habit [...] of earwigging him.at earwig, v.1
‘Finding His Level’ in High Spirits I 234: Poor John Weybridge Esq. became as friendless as penniless, and eventually ‘went under,’ and was heard of no more.at go under, v.
‘An Aunt by Marriage’ in High Spirits I 310: We were ‘going under,’ as the gradual sinking in the social scale is significantly termed.at go under, v.
‘A Change of Views’ in High Spirits II 106: He [...] was to be japanned in a fortnight. That was the expression which, I am grieved to say, he used, in those unregenerate days, for the ceremony of ordination.at japan, v.
‘Captain Cole Passenger’ in High Spirits II 203: He had been drinking, and in fact was on the verge of ‘the jumps,’ which is what the Yankees term delerium tremens.at jumps, the, n.
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