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Temporary Crusaders choose

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[UK] C. Sommers Temporary Crusaders 1 Dec. 🌐 One of them ‘clicked’ with a gunner, and after five minutes they had arranged to be married in Upper Tooting ‘après la guerre!’.
at click, v.3
[UK] C. Sommers Temporary Crusaders 23 Dec. 🌐 I’m getting quite a vocabulary now [...] ‘Imshi Yalah’ means that you no longer require the presence of an importunate orange seller.
at imshee!, excl.
[UK] C. Sommers Temporary Crusaders 30 Dec. 🌐 John Turk has ‘imshied’ again all right, and the line is well on ahead of this.
at imshee, v.
[UK] C. Sommers Temporary Crusaders 30 Dec. 🌐 John Turk has ‘imshied’ again all right, and the line is well on ahead of this [...] By dawn there was no sign of Johnny on the ridge.
at johnny, n.1
[UK] C. Sommers Temporary Crusaders 15 May 🌐 I watched [the horse] the whole way round, and thereby lost not only my money, but a good view of an exciting finish between the first and second, some hundreds of yards in front of my choice. So much for dead certs.
at dead cert (n.) under cert, n.
[UK] C. Sommers Temporary Crusaders 27 May 🌐 The proprietor of the officers’ bathing box met his Waterloo [...] An Australian became more than a little annoyed with him and threatened to slay him. This was enough for George [i.e. an Egyptian], who fled incontinently seawards.
at George, n.3
[UK] C. Sommers Temporary Crusaders 5 Jan. 🌐 There was an old man of Jerusalem, / Who habitually used to bamboozl ’em / By selling our men / the fruit of the hen, / At three times the price that he should sell ’em.
at hen fruit (n.) under hen, n.
[UK] C. Sommers Temporary Crusaders 1 Apr. 🌐 The Australian cavalry, who have been operating in the Jordan valley, say that now they understand the full force of the old expression, ‘Go to Jericho.’.
at go to Jericho (till your beard be grown)! (excl.) under Jericho, n.
[UK] S. Heym Crusaders (1950) 330: Bing dropped a package on the chair. ‘Why, the hog-caller!’ exclaimed Troy, and got up to shake Bing’s hand. [...] ‘My God, you haven’t brought those damned loudspeakers again.’.
at hog-caller (n.) under hog, n.
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