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[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 43: I expect you’d be able to let me ’ave a dog and bone, as it’s a live-in position.
at dog (and bone), n.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 12: It must have taken a lot of aristotle to challenge the Brigadier.
at aristotle, n.
[UK] in Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl.
at battle-cruiser, n.2
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 35: They listen gloomily to the Queen’s Normandy beach.
at Normandy Beach, n.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 9: Well, some chaps have all the Donald.
at Donald (Duck), n.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 23: I think that wearing an Eiffel Tower in the buttonhole somehow makes a man look bigger.
at Eiffel Tower, n.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 49: In this land ruled by the sun and craving the world of the Forsyte Saga.
at Forsyte Saga, n.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 44: Every week I like to put a Lady Godiva on the gee gees.
at Lady Godiva, n.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 15: We’ve got to stop Pater going for the Nell Gwynne every night.
at Nell Gwyn, n.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 21: But, Fenella, he’s such an appalling Harris.
at Harris Tweed, n.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 43: I’m hearts of oak now.
at heart of oak, adj.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 43: Looks like ’e’s King Lear, to me.
at King Lear, adj.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 12: When Ma finds out that Willy’s raided the Mona Lisa, she’ll wipe that smile off his face.
at Mona Lisa, n.
[UK] Wheeler & Broadhead Upper Class Rhy. Sl. 15: That priest hole gave me the Sam Pepys.
at Samuel Pepys, n.
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