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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit choose

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[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 175: In about two shakes of a duck’s tail inspectors and sergeants would come scooping me up.
at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 145: It was quite conceivable that the programme might blow a fuse.
at blow a fuse, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 97: I’m up against it, and only Jeeves can save my name.
at up against, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 72: Then I would say that the thing was in the bag. All over but the cheering.
at all over bar the shouting, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 69: I [...] ankled along to inform my hostess that I had come aboard.
at ankle, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 31: A gang called the Black Shorts, who went about in black footer bags.
at bags, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 7: And I’m not sure it wasn’t ‘bally rot’.
at bally, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 89: That hunk of baloney ... I allude to G. D’Arcy Cheesewright.
at baloney, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 102: I’m banking on him.
at bank on (v.) under bank, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 125: Try that one on your bazooka, my dear Cheesewright.
at bazooka, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 46: Hauled before the beak at Vinton Street police court.
at beak, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 4: Her bean crammed to bursting point with the little grey cells.
at bean, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 148: Jeeves had had occasion to bean a policeman with it.
at bean, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 67: You have some beano in prospect?
at beano, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 65: Well, speak up, dumb-bell.
at dumb-bell, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 12: With two of Jeeves’ specials under my belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 102: Similar upheavals occur when it is the little woman who is caught bending.
at bend, v.2
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 172: You bet your heliotrope socks it has.
at bet one’s boots (v.) under bet, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 180: Inducing L.G. Trotter to throw off the yoke and defy his considerably better half.
at better half, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 20: He was taking it extremely big.
at take it big (v.) under big, adv.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 4: It was well received by the intelligentsia, who [...] enjoy the most frightful bilge.
at bilge, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 25: This Cheesewright [...] is a bimbo who from the cradle up has devoted himself sedulously to aquatic exercise. [Ibid.] 102: Uncle Tom is a kindly old bimbo.
at bimbo, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 1: I was in no sense looking forward to the binge.
at binge, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 179: You mean you’ll handle the whole binge?
at binge, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 3: It is not often that one is confronted with ear-biting on so majestic a scale.
at ear-biting, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 2: No, out, blast it!
at blast!, excl.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 53: Where were you last night, you blighted louse?
at blighted, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 46: I didn’t like the look of the old blister at all.
at blister, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 73: Blister his blighted insides!
at blister, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 19: I may have made a bloomer and left you with a wrong impression.
at bloomer, n.2
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