1880 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.
1880 Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 376: He confessed to himself that he was completely bowled over, – knocked off his pins!at bowl over, v.
1880 Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 536: You see if I don’t butter them up properly.at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
1880 Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 530: I should so hate to fig myself out and look like a guy.at guy, n.1
1880 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.
1880 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
1880 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.
1880 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.
1880 Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 370: That fellow Tregear, who is so thick with Silverbridge.at thick, adj.