1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 105: A little Brasso and a dry rag – come up a treat.at treat, a, adv.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 44: It took imagination, and time, and a great deal of money for these spoiled wealthy girls to appear down and out.at down-and-out, adj.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 157: I think he lost his bottle.at lose one’s bottle (v.) under bottle (and glass), n.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 40: It was a John Baldwick, living in some armpit in east London.at armpit, n.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 70: ‘Gordon Bennett!’ Jocko said, and in spite of myself I laughed out loud at the exclamation.at Gordon Bennett!, excl.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 15: Being bisexual is a big thing in Europe these days. Everyone’s gay.at big thing, n.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 19: I’ve been looking over your bio. It’s really impressive.at bio, n.2
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 112: ‘You never know with blackies,’ she said.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 70: The boy called Nigel said, ‘American schools are brilliant at sports.’.at brilliant, adj.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 154: He was dressed like a man in the English Department bucking for promotion.at buck for, v.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 141: We were [...] the classic canoodling pair, kissing on a park bench.at canoodle, v.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 71: Hussein’s father weighs about twenty stone! Beavis said he looks like a chucker-out.at chucker-out, n.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 106: Some of this stuff gives me the collywobbles, don’t it?at collywobbles, n.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 73: They are often jocks who regard more thoughtful men as cookie-pushers.at cookie-pusher, n.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 17: They’re very modern laid-back people with a house full of crap art and heads full of crap opinions.at crap, adj.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 15: I don’t care what you do [...] but you’re not taking this creep into my house.at creep, n.
1982 P. Theroux London Embassy 114: If the British knew the kind of information we had on them in this thing, they’d deep-six every one of us.at deep six, v.