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Adventures of Philip choose

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[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 536: It was mighty well Mr. Philip Firmin had shown his spirit, and quarrelled with his bread-and-butter.
at quarrel with (one’s) bread and butter (v.) under bread and butter, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 420: Baynes sat with his friend [...] dipping his nose in the brandy-and-water.
at dip one’s beak (v.) under beak, n.2
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 380: ‘The youth is more offensive than the parent.’ ‘A most disgusting little beast.’.
at beast, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 100: She would be no more use in a sick-room than a – than a bull in a china-shop, begad!
at begad!, excl.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 178: Old Parr street is mined, sir, – mined! And some morning we shall be blown into blazes, – into blazes, sir, mark my words!
at blazes, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 191: I must confess he is often an old bore.
at bore, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 536: Mugford always persisted that he could have got the better of his great hulking sub-editor, who did not know the use of his fists. In Mugford’s youthful time, bruising was a fashionable art.
at bruising, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 333: You may as well say that horses are sold in heaven, which, as you know, are groomed, are doctored, are chanted on to the market.
at chant, v.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 136: What clipping girls there were in that barouche!
at clipping, adj.2
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 608: The other made me far from comfortable by performing a tattoo on my chair.
at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 260: You have but one son, and he has a fortune of his own, as I happen to know. You haven’t dipped it, Master Philip?
at dip, v.1
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 381: Not the worse for last night? Some of us were a little elevated, I think!
at elevated, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 608: In the battle of life, every man must meet with a blow or two; and every brave one would take his facer with good-humour.
at facer, n.2
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 377: Just open your mouth [...] What fangs! what a big one!
at fang, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 318: Faugh! It’s corked!
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 602: Ringwood stuck up for you and for your poor governor.
at stick up for, v.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 147: He had enough to live on without grinding over classics and mathematics.
at grind, v.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 494: If you were a chip off the old block you would be just what he called ‘the grit’.
at grit, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 279: Young one is a gentleman – passionate fellow, hawhaw fellow, but kind to the poor.
at haw-haw, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 356: Some hanged adventurer, thinking you were to get money from me, has hooked you for his daughter, has he?
at hook, v.1
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 141: The dice-box went round in many a haunt of pleasure. The knights of the Four Kings travelled from capital to capital, and engaged each other or made prey of the unwary.
at knight of the..., n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 421: Mum’s the word!
at mum’s the word under mum, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 2762: The days of nabobs are long over.
at nabob, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 547: You should see her eat: she is such a oner at eating.
at oner, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 369: Mr. Hely, who was the pink of fashion, you know.
at pink, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 128: Tom Sayers could not take punishment more gaily than they do.
at punishment, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 599: An upstart, an arrogant conceited puppy [...] What do you know of him, with his monstrous puppyism and arrogance?
at puppy, n.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 137: We’ve seen his name – the old man’s – on some very queer paper, says B. with a wink to J.
at queer paper (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 101: Was it to show me a queer fish that you took me to Dr. Firmin’s house in Parr Street?
at queer fish (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 555: ‘Rat that piano!’ She ‘ratted’ the instrument, because the music would wake her little dears upstairs.
at rat, v.1
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