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[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 169: My manly spirit definitely blew a fuse.
at blow a fuse, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 181: There’s a flaw in your story that sticks up like a sore thumb.
at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 63: I string along with that school of thought.
at string (along) with (v.) under string (along), v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 175: These words caught me amidships and took all the fighting spirit out of me.
at amidships, adv.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 171: A man slowly coming to the realization that a woman’s hand had got him by the short hairs.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 48: Apple sauce, in my opinion.
at apple sauce, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 29: I think the thing’s in the bag.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 137: When the moment came for the balloon to go up I didn’t want to be hampered by an audience.
at when the balloon goes up under balloon, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 59: Whether you liked the bally thing or didn’t, the point was that it had vanished.
at bally, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 81: I mean the sort of banana oil that passes between statesmen at conferences.
at banana oil (n.) under banana, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 12: Mr Herring and I were discussing our former pre-school beak.
at beak, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 83: I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler.
at bean, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 42: She had an ink spot on her nose [...] it is virtually impossible to write a novel of suspense without getting a certain amount of ink on the beezer.
at beezer, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 15: Does it ring a bell with you?
at ring a bell (v.) under bell, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 61: With this under her belt, she’ll be able to forbid the banns in no uncertain manner.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 6: ‘Do you know her?’ ‘You bet I know her.’.
at you bet! (excl.) under bet, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 30: Most of the bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years had been of the huntin’, shootin’, fishin’ type.
at bimbo, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 65: It amazed me that I could have allowed myself to be let in for a binge of this description.
at binge, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 30: Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years.
at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 80: Guessing now what was biting him, I smiled.
at bite, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 120: Nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.
at give someone/something a black eye (v.) under black eye, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 123: Chuck the blighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.
at blighter, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 33: Those solid citizens have to learn to curb the tongue. Creates a bad impression, I mean, if they start blinding and stiffing.
at blind, v.2
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 6: Describing this young blister as a one-girl beauty chorus.
at blister, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 79: Blow me tight if I didn’t behold Kipper alighting from his car at the front door.
at blow me tight!, excl.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 85: ‘Well, I’ll be blowed!’ he said, when I had placed the facts before him.
at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 154: All her well-meant efforts have gone blue on her.
at blue, adj.1
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 43: A guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead.
at bohunkus, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 161: She brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head.
at go and boil (the back of) your head! (excl.) under boil, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 154: A loved aunt has sweated herself to the bone trying to save her god-child.
at to the bone (adv.) under bone, n.1
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