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[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 24: They are heroes, those Tommies; they are undaunted, but it’s because they’ve got to be.
at Tommy Atkins, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 7: Derek scooped the bally lot as usual.
at bally, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 159: Charming without a bean in the world isn’t a fact — it’s a farce.
at bean, n.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 149: Have you ever sat down to a more perfectly bloody tea?
at bloody, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 187: Let’s blow the lot while we’re about it. I’m going back tomorrow.
at blow, v.2
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 66: To her he was never the vain, strutting little bounder making himself ridiculous and offensive by turn.
at bounder, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 154: He might continue the good work on other prospectuses, thereby pouching more Bradburys.
at Bradbury, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 178: Surely some rights must go with the property — whether it’s land, or a coal mine, or a bucket shop.
at bucket shop, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 66: He was, in short, a supreme cad, with not a single redeeming feature.
at cad, n.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 223: I believe the men would willingly agree to that if they were [...] sure he wasn’t cooking his books.
at cook, v.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 10: E’s a fair corker is Ginger with a Lewis.
at corker, n.2
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 167: She’s just an ordinary common or garden flirt, and we’ll cut it right out.
at cut out, v.3
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 50: Dash it, Margaret, there was a distinct flavour of the pre-war about you last night.
at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 86: Joan [...] I’m thinking I have played the deuce with your general routine.
at play the deuce (with) (v.) under deuce, the, phr.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 235: Just engaged to that fellow bazter [...] Deuced good thing too.
at deuced, adv.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 195: I had meant to punish you; I had meant to [...] teach you a lesson — and give you a fall.
at fall, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 226: Fire in an application and I’ll put it up tomorrow.
at fire in (v.) under fire, v.2
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 268: My hat! [...] Can this thing be true? Giving up leave.
at my hat!, excl.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 272: A large healthy individual [...] demanding to see the Captain and protesting angrily when he was told to go to hell.
at go to hell! (excl.) under hell, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 111: Are you reading all the highbrows?
at highbrow, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 124: Marshal Foch seems to be fair making the ‘Uns ‘um.
at Hun, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 95: Beg your pardon, old man.
at old man, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 92: Splendid, dear old top [...] let’s have a spot to celebrate your lapse from virtue.
at old top, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 153: Thereby inspiring confidence in all who read, and incidentally pouching some of the Bradburys.
at pouch, v.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 235: Sir James — her father, you know — was in a very queer street.
at Queer Street, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 203: Sonning, I think — to that ripping pub where the roses are.
at ripping, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 180: Why, in the name of fortune, I should give what I possess to a crowd of scally wags who haven’t made good.
at scallywag, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 78: If you prefer it — may I ask your age, Miss Snooks?
at snooks, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 24: The League of Nations; or the triumph of Democracy, or the War to end War. They all sound so topping, don’t they?
at topping, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Mufti 64: I say, old Side-whiskers hasn’t given me my fair whack of beer.
at whack, n.1
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