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Hard Lines II 174: A fig for your British army.at fig, a, n.
Hard Lines II 174: A fig for your British army. Hard Lines II 251: ‘I am afraid your schemes went a little awry yesterday,’ observed Mrs. Daventry to her husband [...] ‘You’re about right; they did.’.at about right, adj.1
Hard Lines III 56: But hang it all, why ain’t you with us up there instead of kicking about here?at kick around, v.
Hard Lines II 260: He avowed frankly that in his opinion the horse had been, in racing parlance, ‘got at’.at get at, v.
Hard Lines II 43: It was all very well while he was fresh, and [...] bumptious enough.at bumptious, adj.
Hard Lines II 266: The Russians will cave when they find we are in earnest.at cave, v.
Hard Lines III 57: But here, Cis, if you mean business, take my advice and chuck that corps.at chuck, v.2
Hard Lines II 50: The apparition of a lady would have paralyzed the tongues of the gay old dogs.at old dog, n.
Hard Lines II 266: We were rather in a funk we should be left behind.at funk, n.2
Hard Lines III 135: Our Eastern empire is much addicted to what they term ‘gup,’ whereby they mean gossip, scandal.at gup, n.1
Hard Lines II 29: It seems awful hard lines that a fellow who has simply been awfully sold should be accused of being a leg and a robber and all that.at hard lines, n.
Hard Lines II 31: You’re a rare plucked ’un, Annie.at plucked ’un (n.) under pluck, n.1
Hard Lines II 268: Wild rumours that the allies really mean striking a blow, which I presume in our less stilted vernacular means have a cut at the Ruskis.at Russki, n.
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