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Post to Finish III 184: Begad, if anything happens to her, hanging’s too good for you.at begad!, excl.
Post to Finish III 184: Begad, if anything happens to her, hanging’s too good for you. Post to Finish II 187: [of a racehorse] ‘Riddleton ought to take the Leger again this year.’ ‘All depends upon whether that beggar thinks so.’.at beggar, n.
Post to Finish II 20: One thing more: take my advice, and keep clear of muslin for the next six or seven years.at bit of muslin (n.) under bit, n.1
Post to Finish I 4: About as evil a specimen of gentleman blackleg as it was possible to encounter.at blackleg, n.1
Post to Finish I 26: Blame me, I do know whether they’re turned out all right when I see ’em.at blame, v.
Post to Finish II 155: ‘He is very likely to want a thousand pounds at any moment. There’s a leaven of the old squire in his composition, and I recollect hearing that he was blooded over the Phaeton Leger.’ ‘You surely can’t mean that he has taken to racing? Why, you must be aware that he has no money for anything of that sort.’.at blood, v.
Post to Finish I 16: I got twenty-eight pound to two from one of those ready-money men, and he booked up like a gentleman as soon as the race was over.at book, v.1
Post to Finish I 7: Three-card men hoarsely vociferating that you do not name the Queen of Clubs for ‘a croon.’.at three-card (monte) man (n.) under three-card monte, n.
Post to Finish II 125: The fat’s in the fire, and we’re all ‘in the cart’.at in the cart under cart, n.1
Post to Finish II 20: From what I hear, you came to Riddleton fooling after my daughter. Now, I’ll have no caterwauling of that sort.at caterwaul, v.
Post to Finish I 23: A hoondred to seven once was good enough for this child.at child, n.
Post to Finish II 74: A dozen cigars a day make one feel dreadfully ‘chippy’ in the morning.at chippy, adj.1
Post to Finish I 111: We have got two clinking four-year-olds in the stable.at clinking, adj.
Post to Finish I 272: [of a racehorse] No idea, of course, you had such a clipper.at clipper, n.2
Post to Finish I 12: All along the far side [...] the dark-blue jacket leads the field a cracker.at cracker, n.6
Post to Finish I 233: Pity [...] not to have a cut at such a big stake on the off chance.at have a cut (at) (v.) under cut, n.1
Post to Finish I 11: Old Greyson would never put the double upon us.at put the double (up)on (v.) under double, n.1
Post to Finish I 24: ‘They do say [...] that the Squire’s dropped a power of brass over the race.’.at drop, v.2
Post to Finish I 64: I’m not so dusty, and if it wasn’t for my disgusting weight I’d pretty soon let ’em see at Newmarket what I can do.at not so dusty (adj.) under dusty, adj.1
Post to Finish II 249: A gentleman [...] whose nether garments fitted his extremities like eelskins.at eel skins, n.
Post to Finish I 26: Blame me, I do know whether they’re turned out all right when I see ’em, and mean my girl to look as fit as any of ’em.at fit, adj.
Post to Finish III 86: Some knowledge of slang is and always was part of a gentleman’s education. Why, when the late Lord Lytton wrote ‘Pelham’ it was brought against him that ‘his knowledge of flash was evidently purely superficial.’ Flash, my sister, is merely [...] thieves’ argot.at flash, n.1
Post to Finish I 24: What with drinking old Bill’s health and Phaeton’s, I’m a litle foggy as yet as to where we’ve got in the week.at foggy, adj.
Post to Finish I 106: What! old Writson against Sam Pearson? Why, it’s a guinea to a gooseberry on Sam!at guinea to a gooseberry (n.) under guinea, n.2
Post to Finish II 49: This chap struck me as a deal better bred ’un than they are mostly. He’s no hair about the heels, so to speak.at hair about the heels under hair, n.
Post to Finish I 234: It won’t be the first hundred I’ve made a big hole in by taking long odds.at make a hole in (v.) under hole, n.1
Post to Finish II 237: I’m aware, of course, that I am called the ‘Aristocratic Jock’.at jock, n.2
Post to Finish I 147: All right, Sir Marmaduke, what shall it be? In monkeys or thousands?at monkey, n.
Post to Finish II 240: It was nuts to me to find I had just done Phaeton.at nuts, n.1
Post to Finish I 174: Being a little out of sorts or, in turf argot, ‘a little off’.at off, adv.1
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