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Newcomes I 159: I know she is flighty, and that; and Brian’s back is up a little.at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
Newcomes I 159: I know she is flighty, and that; and Brian’s back is up a little. Newcomes I 296: The well-known hooked beak of the old Countess of Kew.at beak, n.2
Newcomes I 362: The claret was beastly – not fit for a gentleman to drink!at beastly, adj.
Newcomes I 119: By cock and pye, it is not worth a bender.at bender, n.1
Newcomes I 68: Mind the hice is here in time; or there’ll be a blow up with your governor.at blow-up, n.1
Newcomes I 287: God bless you, old boy; don’t be too hard upon me.at old boy, n.
Newcomes I 8: ‘I’m sorry to see you gentlemen drinking brandy-pawnee,’ says he. ‘It plays the deuce with our young men in India.’.at brandy-pawnee (n.) under brandy, n.
Newcomes I 101: At that time the Sunday newspapers contained many and many exciting reports of boxing matches. Bruising was considered a fine manly old English custom.at bruising, n.
Newcomes I 119: Here’s towards you, my buck.at buck, n.1
Newcomes I 207: Tom is here with a fine carrotty beard.at carrotty, adj.
Newcomes I 242: Bellew has seceded, and seduced the four best singing boys, who now perform glees at the Cave of Harmony.at Cave of Harmony, n.
Newcomes I 46: Mrs. Newcome’s dam patronising airs is enough to choke off any body.at choke off, v.
Newcomes I 37: ‘As for poetry, I hate poetry.’ ‘Pens is not first-chop,’ says Warrington.at first chop, adj.
Newcomes I 159: Shrewd old cock, Mr. Binnie. Has brought home a good bit of money from India.at cock, n.3
Newcomes I 119: By cock and pye, it is not worth a bender.at cock and pie! (excl.) under cock, n.1
Newcomes I 269: That man so calm and well-bred [...] packed cards and cogged dice.at cog, v.
Newcomes I 63: If I hadn’t been in India, by dash – he should have been black-balled twenty times over, by dash [Ibid.] Dashed little prig [...] why the dash did they ever let him in here?at dash, n.5
Newcomes I 228: In the world people drop you and take you up every day.at drop, v.1
Newcomes I 171: Bob Trotter, the diminutive fag of the studio, who ran all the young men’s errands.at fag, n.1
Newcomes I 186: That nabob of ours is a queer fish.at queer fish (n.) under fish, n.1
Newcomes I 124: He was in the Cave of Harmony, he says, that night you flared up about Captain Costigan.at flare up, v.
Newcomes I 343: Gaw! how he did go down!at gaw, n.
Newcomes I 239: Show me a gracious virgin bearing a lily: not a leering giggler.at giggler, n.
Newcomes I 84: Binnie, as brisk and rosy about the gills as Chanticleer, broke out in a morning salutation.at gills, n.1
Newcomes I 361: He was an adventurer, a pauper, a blackleg, a regular Greek.at Greek, n.
Newcomes I 239: I will [...] stand a glass of grog.at grog, n.1
Newcomes I 222: She [...] entertains us with stories of colonial governors and their ladies, mentioning no persons but those who ‘had handles to their names,’ as the phrase is.at handle, n.
The Newcomes I 63: I’ll vote with him – hanged if I don’t.at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
Newcomes I 286: I tried every place, everything; went to Ems, to Wiesbaden, to Hombourg, and played like hell.at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
Newcomes I 119: Julia the cook will exclaim, ‘Lor’, it’s Mr. Frederick.’.at lor!, excl.
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