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Among Cinders choose

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[UK] M. Shadbolt Among Cinders 122: Give it a bone, will you?
at give it a bone! (excl.) under bone, n.1
[UK] M. Shadbolt Among Cinders 76: ‘Now, Dad, how about a cup of tea?’ ‘Tea be buggered.’.
at buggered, adj.1
[UK] M. Shadbolt Among Cinders 190: You fellows guess I am bloody Dally from Dalmatia, eh?
at Dally, n.
[UK] M. Shadbolt Among Cinders 263: They might have gone on for hours like a pair of cut cats, but then Jim walked into the argument carrying his crate.
at go like a cut cat (v.) under go like..., v.
[UK] M. Shadbolt Among Cinders 76: [of brandy] Great stuff. Nothing to beat the pure grape.
at grape, n.1
[UK] M. Shadbolt Among Cinders 209: The bush. Still not bloody shook on it, are you?
at shook on (adj.) under shook, adj.
[UK] M. Shadbolt Among Cinders 49: He wasn’t going to pull a swifty on me.
at swiftie, n.
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