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Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 158: [A] flabby, puffy man [...] wearing a red waistcoat, brown shoes, a morning coat and a bowler hat [...] a Grade A bounder.at grade A, adj.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 158: [A] flabby, puffy man [...] wearing a red waistcoat, brown shoes, a morning coat and a bowler hat [...] a Grade A bounder. Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 71: Now, unfortunately, Purkiss’s absence from the centre of things had caused Bingo to get it up his nose a bit. [...] he had been getting more and more above himself.at get above oneself (v.) under above oneself, adj.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 71: ‘I gave her the air [...] turfed her out’.at give someone the air (v.) under air, n.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 69: [He] got back some of the stuff that had gone down the drain at Ally Pally and Kempton Park.at Ally Pally, n.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 116: ‘Tell her I’ll be there in two ticks, with bells on’.at with bells on under bell, n.1
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 53: He biffed off and fetched the fixings.at biff off (v.) under biff, v.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 72: [T]his bird Jobson was a bird who should have been conciliated, sucked up to, given the old oil.at bird, n.1
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 18: There were [...] two things which rendered Oofy Prosser a difficult proposition for the ear-biter.at ear-biter, n.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 245: [T]he pop-eyed daughter of a blighted OBE.at blighted, adj.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 180: I had never
got the boot quite so suddenly before.at boot, the, n.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 41: He had a shot [...] at bracing the little woman for a trifle, but without any real hope.at brace, v.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 179: ‘[U]ntil that moment I had rather intended to give [Ascot] the go-by’.at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 12: ‘The customers [i.e. readers] have become cagey. They know too much’.at cagey, adj.1
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 112: [W]hen he had conceived the scheme of using Algernon Aubrey as a softening influence, he had felt that it was a cinch.at cinch, n.1
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 11: [H]e had a system which couldn’t fail to clean out the Casino.at clean out, v.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 70: [O]ne of these days he is going to get himself into serious trouble by coming the heavy editor like this.at come the..., v.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 183: So there I was, dished.at dished, adj.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 74: But the thought that the hour of that springing [i.e. of bad news] must inevitably come kept him in pretty much of a doodah.at doodah, n.1
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 239: [T]he rich uncle from Australia you read so much about in novels. The old-fashioned novels, I mean, the ones where the hero isn’t a dope-fiend.at dope fiend (n.) under dope, n.1
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 30: [I]f he left the doubloons where they were, the next spin might see them all go down the drain.at doubloon, n.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 205: ‘I was not dreaming of biting your ear, old horse’.at bite someone’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 39: A Bean was showing his sore leg to some Eggs and
Piefaces in the smoking-room of the Drones Club.at pie-face, n.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 89: ‘[A]ll this begins to look a bit French. Did you kiss Miss Jobson?’.at French, adj.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 73: Out of the night that covered him, black as the pit from pole to pole, one solitary bit of goose presented itself.at goose, n.1
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 96: It was with considerable pleasure that he recognized in her an old pal [...] for this enabled him to well-well-well and horn in.at horn in (v.) under horn, v.3
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 151: ‘I am dispatching immediately a red-hot nurse whom he will find just the same as Mother makes’.at red-hot, adj.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 181: [S]eeing a rather juicy clock doing nothing on the mantelpiece of the spare bedroom, I had sneaked it off [...] and put it up the spout at the local pawnbroker’s.at juicy, adj.
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 102: ‘Take a tenner?’ ‘Tenner it is.’ ‘Okay,’” said Bingo. ‘Kayo,’ said Charles Pikelet.at kayo
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 182: It takes more than a knock like that to crush
your old friend.at knock, n.1
Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 22: ‘[M]y little boy Percy, who took the knock the year Worcester Sauce won the Jubilee Handicap’.at take the knock (v.) under knock, n.1
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