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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
Adventures of Philip (1899) 536: It was mighty well Mr. Philip Firmin had shown his spirit, and quarrelled with his bread-and-butter. 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
Adventures of Philip (1899) 380: ‘The youth is more offensive than the parent.’ ‘A most disgusting little beast.’.at beast, n.
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.
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.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 191: I must confess he is often an old bore.at bore, n.1
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.
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.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 136: What clipping girls there were in that barouche!at clipping, adj.2
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.
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
Adventures of Philip (1899) 381: Not the worse for last night? Some of us were a little elevated, I think!at elevated, adj.
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
Adventures of Philip (1899) 377: Just open your mouth [...] What fangs! what a big one!at fang, n.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 318: Faugh! It’s corked!at faugh!, excl.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 602: Ringwood stuck up for you and for your poor governor.at stick up for, v.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 147: He had enough to live on without grinding over classics and mathematics.at grind, v.
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
Adventures of Philip (1899) 279: Young one is a gentleman – passionate fellow, hawhaw fellow, but kind to the poor.at haw-haw, adj.
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
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.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 421: Mum’s the word!at mum’s the word under mum, adj.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 2762: The days of nabobs are long over.at nabob, n.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 547: You should see her eat: she is such a oner at eating.at oner, n.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 369: Mr. Hely, who was the pink of fashion, you know.at pink, n.
Adventures of Philip (1899) 128: Tom Sayers could not take punishment more gaily than they do.at punishment, n.
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.
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.
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.
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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