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[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 184: Had it fallen into the petrol it would probably have been all up with Miss Runcible.
at all up with under all up, adj.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 218: He’s rather an ass about money.
at ass, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 133: I say, I’ve met an awful good chap called Miles. Regular topper.
at awful, adv.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 100: Back-chat again [...] Girls, I’m sick ashamed of you.
at backchat, n.1
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 156: You can beat it.
at beat it, v.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 102: ‘See the beaver with the medal,’ said Humility to Faith.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 191: Thanks no end for the binge.
at binge, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 37: After the war my people give me the bird, yes, but they throw my Prime Minister out of the window.
at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 97: Blooming shame that they’re so religious ... wasting the best years of their lives.
at blooming, adj.1
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 59: Oh, dear [...] this really is all too bogus.
at bogus, adj.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 35: They gave him the boot after the war.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 249: Talking of drinks, I’ve got a case of bubbly in the car.
at bubbly, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 128: As soon as the governor kicks the bucket.
at kick the bucket, v.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 10: At first they had rather a jolly time about it, saying, ‘What ho, she bumps.’.
at what ho, she bumps!, excl.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 128: I’m going to come back to England and have a real old bust.
at bust, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 61: Take it away quick, or I’ll catch you such a smack.
at catch, v.1
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 115: He sent down a chit that none of the people who’re bringing actions against the paper can be mentioned again.
at chit, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 67: If you’re a commercial, I can tell you straight it ain’t no use going to ’im.
at commercial, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 28: It is all so deuced awkward.
at deuced, adv.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 115: Weren’t you over at the office with Balcairn the day he did himself in?
at do oneself in (v.) under do in, v.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 128: As soon as the governor kicks the bucket, and I come in for the family doubloons and pieces of eight.
at doubloon, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 10: Behind them a game of cards was in progress among the commercial gents.
at gent, n.1
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 128: As soon as the governor kicks the bucket, and I come in for the family doubloons and pieces of eight.
at governor, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 222: Ginger says he knows a ‘top-hole little spot not far from Monte.’.
at top-hole, adj.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 183: Those who [...] had covered their roofs with unstable wooden forms, and were selling tickets like very expensive hot cakes.
at like hot cakes under hot, adj.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 135: When I see a howling cad I like to tell him so.
at howling, adj.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 198: ‘The Honest Injun,’ a workmens’ dining-room and a fried-fish shop.
at Injun, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 40: Well I’m jiggered.
at I’ll be jiggered! (excl.) under jigger, v.3
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 135: Same to you, old boy, with nobs on.
at with knobs on under knob, n.
[UK] E. Waugh Vile Bodies 10: How about knocking off for a bit?
at knock off, v.
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