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[SA] J. Waring Hot Air 12: The Mink and Manure set of Johannesburg might seem a trifle nouveau riche to the Constantia and Bishopscourt dwellers.
at mink and manure belt, n.
[SA] J. Waring Hot Air 147: Oh well, out of the mouths of babes and bergies . . .
at bergie, n.
[SA] J. Waring Hot Air 26: We step into our Cadillacs [...] and sweep off in our black fishbowls. [...] The Cadillacs, enormous cars, attract too much attention. So when you draw up at a robot [...] people peer into the ‘fishbowl’.
at fish-bowl, n.
[SA] J. Waring Hot Air 102: The char (her staff!) and I cleaned out the dirt of centuries from under carpets.
at char, n.1
[SA] J. Waring Hot Air 24: Occasionally disaster strikes, as when a Minister’s wife and the wife of an Administrator found themselves in identical frocks. ‘Wat ’n gemors!’.
at gemors, n.
[SA] J. Waring Hot Air 41: We all wore bras religiously in those days, libs or no libs!
at lib, n.2
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