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The Nine Tailors choose

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[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 139: What I may have said and done, when I was ill, don’t matter a hill of beans.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 304: Drive like hell, men, it’s all up!
at all up, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 123: You mustn’t quarrel with your bread and butter, Superintendent.
at quarrel with (one’s) bread and butter (v.) under bread and butter, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 302: ‘My wife and children – are they safe?’ ‘Safe as houses, Will.’.
at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 90: And I can put away quite a lot of beer in a good cause.
at put away, v.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 99: He was a bad ’un was Jeff, though even now, poor Mary won’t hear a word against him.
at bad ’un (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 42: A bad lot, was Deacon.
at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 244: He found he’d bagged a Tommy in uniform with all his kit.
at bag, v.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 244: He found he’d bagged a Tommy in uniform.
at bag, v.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 57: They had some sort of dispute with the Minister about their Good Friday beanfeast.
at beanfeast (n.) under bean, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 182: What a beetle-headed cuckoo I am!
at beetle-head (n.) under beetle, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 110: On the day of the funeral it rained like billy-oh!
at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 106: Uncle’s a comic old bird.
at old bird, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 151: These girls are very bird-witted.
at bird-witted (adj.) under bird, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 250: Mr. Paul Bleeding Taylor and Mr. Batty Thomas! Bells, if you please!
at bleeding, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 160: If you did you’d be batty. Oh, bother!
at bother!, excl.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 248: He got a vertical breeze up every time he thought of that dead warder and the chap he’d thrown down the hole.
at get the breeze up (v.) under breeze, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 178: And there were so many teeth gone and busted from the corpse that we’ve not got much out of that.
at busted, adj.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 227: I might make a guess, but I won’t. I’ll buy it. What was the name?
at buy, v.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 130: Whew! What an old catamaran!
at catamaran, n.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 98: I’ve heard as there’s a reglar party comin’ from St. Stephen in Jack Brownlow’s sharrer.
at chara, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 228: Coo! tell us some more about that.
at coo!, excl.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 244: He wrote me a letter [...] Sent it to the old crib, and it was forwarded on.
at crib, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 182: What a beetle-headed cuckoo I am!
at cuckoo, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 121: I don’t believe myself that Mrs. Wilbraham would ever have cut up so rough if it weren’t for the things Mr. Edward said to her.
at cut up rough, v.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 81: You cut off home.
at cut away (v.) under cut, v.2
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 57: You want a few more daffs. on the decani side, Mrs. Venables.
at daff, n.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers The Nine Tailors (1984) 265: It’s a damnable business, the whole thing.
at damnable, adj.
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 27: ‘Dash it all!’ said Wimsey.
at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[UK] D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 50: I shouldn’t care for the sluice-keeper’s job – dashed lonely, I should think.
at dashed, adv.
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