1960 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.
1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 63: I string along with that school of thought.at string (along) with (v.) under string (along), v.
1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 175: These words caught me amidships and took all the fighting spirit out of me.at amidships, adv.
1960 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.
1960 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.
1960 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.
1960 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.
1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 12: Mr Herring and I were discussing our former pre-school beak.at beak, n.1
1960 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.
1960 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
1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 15: Does it ring a bell with you?at ring a bell (v.) under bell, n.1
1960 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.
1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 6: ‘Do you know her?’ ‘You bet I know her.’.at you bet! (excl.) under bet, v.
1960 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.
1960 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.
1960 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
1960 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.
1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 123: Chuck the blighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.at blighter, n.
1960 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
1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 6: Describing this young blister as a one-girl beauty chorus.at blister, n.1
1960 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.
1960 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
1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 154: All her well-meant efforts have gone blue on her.at blue, adj.1
1960 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.
1960 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.
1960 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