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The Three Clerks choose

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[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 252: He had bestowed perhaps the greatest amount of personal attention on his collar [...] Some people may think that an all-rounder is an all-rounder, and that if one is careful to get an all-rounder one has done all that is necessary. But so thought not Macassar Jones.
at all-rounder, n.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 97: So it’s all up with the New Friendships, is it?
at all up with under all up, adj.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 250: It was a Tom and Jerry hat turned up at the sides, with a short but knowing feather.
at tom and jerry, n.1
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 98: Surely you’re not tied to that fellow’s apron-strings.
at tied to someone’s apron-strings (adj.) under apron-strings, n.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 379: She’s the very article for such a man as Peppermint.
at article, n.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 378: Come and sit down, my birdie.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 16: Mary, my dear, a screw of bird’s eye!
at birdseye, n.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 98: Come, you don’t like the brandy toddy, nor I either. We’ll see what sort of a hand they are at making a bowl of bishop.
at bishop, n.2
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 535: We could have half a dozen married couples all separating, getting rid of their ribs, and buckling again, helter-skelter, every man to somebody else’s wife.
at buckle, v.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 7: The quantity of butter which he poured over Mr. Hardine’s head and shoulders with the view of alleviating the misery which such a communication would be sure to inflict, was very great.
at butter, n.1
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 519: Undy Scott [...] possessed an enormous quantity of that which schoolboys in these days call ‘cheek’.
at cheek, n.2
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 520: He lived but on the cheekiness of his gait and habits.
at cheekiness (n.) under cheek, n.2
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 22: Hampton-Court, that well-loved resort of cockneydom.
at -dom, sfx
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 99: I’ve a deal to do before I get to my downy.
at downy, n.2
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 31: I am sure he is a cross old hunks, though mamma says he’s not.
at hunks, n.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 98: Lord love you, Mr. Scott, now it’s your time.
at lord love...!, excl.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 455: He was dogged at the distance of some thirty yards by an amiable policeman in mufti.
at mufti, n.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 31: He expected to pay £200 a-year for his board and lodging, which he thought might as well go to his niece as to some shark, who would probably starve him.
at shark, n.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 549: Well, I’ll be shot if I guess any more.
at I’ll be shot (if) under shoot, v.
[UK] Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 379: She’s just gone and got herself spliced to Peppermint this morning.
at splice, v.
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