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The Inimitable Jeeves choose

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[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 106: They were a very C3 collection.
at C-3, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 16: Absolutely all over me, I can’t make it out.
at all over, adj.2
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 24: I gave the couple the wary up-and-down.
at up-and-down, the, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 177: And, of course, young Bingo had to make an ass of himself.
at ass, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 178: The kid [...] realised that Bingo, being in a position to get at him, had better be conciliated.
at get at, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 20: My sainted aunt!
at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 96: Did you put that pie-faced infant up to bally-ragging Mr. Bassington-Bassington?
at ballyrag, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 127: You can always bank on Bertie.
at bank on (v.) under bank, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 1: Every other valet [...] used to barge into my room in the morning.
at barge (in) (v.) under barge, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 85: You’ve just finished exercising the old bean.
at bean, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 163: What beats me [...] is what principle you pick them on?
at beat, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 63: I unbelted the fiver.
at unbelt (v.) under belt, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 171: It’s a big thing, you know, this Christmas.
at big thing, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 174: I had had experience of one or two of these binges.
at binge, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 8: So you put the whole binge to Jeeves.
at binge, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 65: I had never realized [...] what a formidable old bird he was.
at old bird, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 96: It would be a bit of a jar for the old boy if I gave him the bird and went on the stage.
at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 19: Brace up and bite the bullet.
at bite the bullet (v.) under bite, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 147: The moment blighted Harold discovered that training meant knocking off pastry [...] he was all against it.
at blighted, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 30: If only Aunt Agatha and the other blisters had been elsewhere.
at blister, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 71: ‘The Seekers?’ ‘Rather a blood club, you know, up at Oxford.’.
at blood, adj.1
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 134: The favourite’s blown up.
at blow up, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 104: Till I came along he was the blue-eyed boy.
at blue-eyed boy, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 58: I had just been saying to myself ‘Death, where is thy jolly old sting?’ when she hove the bomb.
at bomb, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 167: ‘Good Lord! What, making a book on it?’ ‘I understand he is accepting wagers from those in his immediate circle, sir’.
at book, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 112: Later I edge round to my bookie and put the entire sum on Ocean Breeze.
at bookie, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 15: Young Bingo must have boosted me to some purpose.
at boost, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 96: It would be a bit of a jar for the old boy.
at old boy, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 93: A flower-pot fell off a window-ledge and nearly brained the hero.
at brain, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 29: I went like a breeze with this girl.
at breeze, n.1
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