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Social Sinners choose

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[UK] H. Smart Social Sinners II 93: ‘Go along with you,’ cried her ladyship, laughing.
at get along with you!, excl.
[UK] H. Smart Social Sinners II 176: You have a weakness for the great world? Good. Score off your own bat, and it is the great world comes to you.
at off one’s own bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[UK] H. Smart Social Sinners II 99: My inheritance disappears as if it had been invested in a bubble company.
at bubble, n.1
[UK] H. Smart Social Sinners II 187: He saw people began to make way for him when she was concerned; in short, that they looked upon it as ‘a case’.
at case, n.1
[UK] H. Smart Social Sinners I 88: Lord, what dead ’uns he did back, to be sure!
at dead one, n.
[UK] H. Smart Social Sinners I 201: A slight, dark man, of middle height, clad in an ordinary suit of dittoes, entered the room.
at ditto, n.
[UK] H. Smart Social Sinners II 175: Still in the blind state of puppydom!
at -dom, sfx
[UK] H. Smart Social Sinners III 93: ‘I suppose, by your asking the question, you have become acquainted with Mr. Solano’s past.’ ‘That’s just it, Mr. Prossiter; by an odd fluke I have.’.
at fluke, n.2
[UK] H. Smart Social Sinners II 129: From floating a fraud in the financial world, to nobbling a Derby favourite.
at nobble, v.2
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