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Carry on, Jeeves choose

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[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 36: A stiff b-and-s first of all, and then I’ve a bit of news for you.
at b and s, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 207: ‘I shall not dare to show my face in the West End of London again.’ ‘My aunt!’ I cried, deeply impressed.
at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 170: Even at the expense of giving old Sippy away, I must be cleared of this frightful charge. After all, Sippy’s number was up anyway.
at give away, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 155: Surely you can see for yourself that this is pure banana oil.
at banana oil (n.) under banana, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 197: ‘Dear old Freddie may have been fluffy in his lines,’ I said, ‘but his business certainly seems to have gone with a bang.’.
at with a bang (adv.) under bang, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 173: The next morning the beak sent him to the bastille for thirty days.
at bastille, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 39: I can almost see the headlines: ‘Promising Young Artist Beans Baby With Axe’.
at bean, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 70: I had met Bicky for the first time at a species of beano or jamboree.
at beano, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 159: The old boy most fortunately got the idea that I was off my rocker and put the bee on the proceedings.
at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 153: He had sung at her village concert once before and had got the bird in no uncertain manner.
at get the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 81: What a perfectly foul time those Stock Exchange fellows must have when the public isn’t biting freely.
at bite, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 204: My Uncle Thomas is a cove who made a colossal pile of money out in the East, but in doing so put his digestion on the blink.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 216: The policeman was regarding me in a boiled way.
at boiled, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 221: ‘I think a little change of scene would be judicious.’ ‘Do a bolt?’.
at bolt, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 37: Time, instead of working the healing wheeze, went and pulled the most awful bone and put the lid on it.
at pull a boner (v.) under boner, n.3
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 17: Directly I found that he was a sock-sneaker I gave him the boot.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 38: I was bowled over. Absolutely. It was the limit.
at bowl over, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 215: He was a big, stout old buffer in a high collar that seemed to hurt his neck.
at buffer, n.3
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 223: ‘I shouldn’t have thought you would have been able to get away from the paper,’ I said. ‘I say,’ I went on, struck by a pleasing idea. ‘It hasn’t bust up, has it?’.
at bust, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 3: This Lord Worplesdon was Florence’s father. He was the old buster.
at buster, n.3
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 210: Is that – that buzzard trying to pinch our cook?
at buzzard, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 75: He was trying to get the cabby to switch from New York to London prices.
at cabby, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 35: ‘It’s a cert!’ I said. ‘An absolute cinch!’ said Corky.
at cert, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 131: Oh, well, if you don’t want to chip in and save a fellow-creature, I suppose I can’t make you.
at chip in, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 8: It took a lot to make them chuck people out of music-halls in 1887.
at chuck out, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 35: You can’t call a chap the world’s greatest authority on the yellow-billed cuckoo without rousing a certain disposition towards chumminess in him.
at chumminess (n.) under chummy, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 35: ‘It’s a cert!’ I said. ‘An absolute cinch!’ said Corky.
at cinch, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 11: You would find him prowling about the house, setting such a clip to try and catch up with himself.
at clip, n.3
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 154: ‘All clear up to now?’ Jeeves inclined the coco-nut.
at coconut, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 226: ‘Twenty-five pounds.’ ‘Good lord, Jeeves! You’ve been coining the stuff!’.
at coin (it), v.
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