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[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water II 47: ‘Knocking about’ [...] you do in your steam-yacht or in your carriage with a courier.
at knock about, v.1
[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water II 43: It was his excusable boast, though expressed in somewhat vulgar language, that when anything was wanted he was ‘all there’.
at all there, adj.
[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water I 111: He could open his eyes to some purpose, when their effect was that of a policeman’s bull’s-eye suddenly turned on a detected thief.
at bull’s eye, n.
[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water I 285: I think Hébert is choked off. His attempt to farm them on the ground of being an uncle utterly failed, and the Court’s decision as to the arrears has ruined him.
at choke off, v.
[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water II 137: You would have found it deucedly inconvenient, Ralph, if it had happened to you.
at deucedly, adv.
[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water II 5: You dog with the teeth [...] you will be hanged like a dog.
at dog, n.2
[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water I 251: She gave it him pretty stiff, I fancy.
at give it to, v.
[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water I 194: It was not unusual for Mrs. Beckett to seek half an hour’s intimate talk with her younger companion, which she playfully termed ‘a kegmeg’.
at kegmeg, n.
[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water II 246: Pooh! pooh! my good fellow.
at pooh-pooh, phr.
[UK] J. Payn Thicker than Water III 171: What! [...] you mean to say he never gave you nothing to take the taste out of it? Scaly varmint!
at scaly, adj.
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