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The Duke’s Children choose

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[UK] Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 203: ‘The Right Honourable Gentleman no doubt means,’ said Phineas, ‘that we must carry ourselves with some increased external dignity. The world is bigwigging itself, and we must buy a bigger wig than any we have got, in order to confront the world with proper self-respect.’.
at bigwig, n.
[UK] Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 376: He confessed to himself that he was completely bowled over, – knocked off his pins!
at bowl over, v.
[UK] Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 536: You see if I don’t butter them up properly.
at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
[UK] Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 530: I should so hate to fig myself out and look like a guy.
at guy, n.1
[UK] Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 378: She’ll get it hot and heavy before she has done.
at get it hot (v.) under hot, adv.
[UK] Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 589: I think that we shall beat Cambridge this year to a moral.
at to a/the moral (adv.) under moral, n.1
[UK] Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 138: ‘If they do send me down, what’s the odds?’ said the younger brother, who was not quite as sober as he might have been.
at what odds?, phr.
[UK] Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 205: Experience had taught him that the less people demanded the more they were sat upon.
at sit on, v.
[UK] Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 370: That fellow Tregear, who is so thick with Silverbridge.
at thick, adj.
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