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Bulldog Drummmond: His Four Rounds with Carl Peterson choose

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[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 37: Hugh Drummond admitted to himself [...] that he didn’t care a damn if it was (i.e. a hoax].
at not give a damn, v.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 70: Your wife — she has a sister something, hasn’t she, knocking about somewhere.
at knock about, v.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 166: ‘What luck?’ ‘Dam’ all, as they say in the vernacular.’.
at damn-all, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 25: I suppose you think that I’m hysterical [...] You’re probably even wondering whether I’m all there.
at all there, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 173: He had fought in the brigade next to them [...] in July ’16 — and he had liked them — those mad Tommies.
at Tommy Atkins, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 152: When the young Pooh-ba comes of age, naturally his devoted parent will sport her glad rags.
at pooh-bah, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 111: And so he’s found the bally fox [...] What do we do, sergeant-major?
at bally, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 211: Oh you daisy [...] you pair of priceless beans.
at bean, n.2
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 42: He had never been a man who beat about the bush.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 117: ‘A very considerable bend, gentlemen,’ he remarked.
at bend, n.2
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 181: That’s what Peterson’s playing for — I’ll stake my bottom dollar.
at bet one’s bottom dollar (v.) under bet, v.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 40: Who’s the quaint bird sitting beside the chauffeur?
at bird, n.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 71: You prisheless ole bean [...] thish blinking cabsh my show. [Ibid.] 161: For Heaven’s sake get a move on with that blinking ladder.
at blinking, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 87: The bloke’s sitting up in ’is bed swearing awful.
at bloke, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 76: You’ll consider a thick ear, Mr. Blooming Knowall.
at blooming, adj.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 198: He always bobs up somehow.
at bob up (v.) under bob, v.3
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 165: He doesn’t strike me as being Number One value. He’s gone off the boil.
at go off the boil (v.) under boil, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 210: The whole boiling bunch are asleep or I’ll eat my hat.
at whole boiling lot, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 181: He’s in with the big financiers: and he’s using the tub-thumping Bolshies as tools.
at bolshie, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 40: For a fellah to stop his car by braking so hard he locks both back wheels is no bon, as we used to say in France.
at no bon, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 191: Can it be that my little pet is feeling icky-boo?
at icky-boo, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 140: You fool [...] You poor, damned boob!
at boob, n.2
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 245: He’ll pocket the boodle, and the boobs will stew in their own juice.
at boodle, n.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 196: Somebody has been rough-housing [...] Looks like a boozing den after a thick night.
at boozing crib (n.) under boozing, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 69: Wouldn’t it be better, Hugh, to whip up two or three of the boys and have a real scrap.
at boys, the, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 68: I hear you’re in the throws of a brainstorm.
at brainstorm (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 66: ‘Two alternatives, old buck,’ he remarked.
at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 219: I remember in my extreme youth being worse than passing sick by those bushes [...] after a juvenile bun-worry.
at bun-worry (n.) under bun, n.3
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 216: How long will it take me to get the old buzz-box to Laidley Towers?
at buzz-box (n.) under buzz, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 247: The mistake you’ve made [...] is not giving Peterson a seat in your Cabinet. He’d have the whole caboose eating out of his hand.
at caboose, n.
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