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[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 397: Let all be open and above-board.
at above board, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 498: This guy’s ace-high with Lady Constance.
at ace-high, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 517: If you start any strong-arm work in front of everybody like the way you say, won’t they ...?
at strong-arm, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 515: Unless you ball up your end of it, Ed, it can’t fail to drag home the gravy.
at ball up, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 517: Is it or is it not [...] a ball of fire?
at ball of fire (n.) under ball, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 515: What’s the big idea?
at what’s the (big) idea?, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 516: Tonight this bimbo that calls himself McTodd is going to give a reading of his poems.
at bimbo, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 502: I’d like [...] to beat your block off.
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 510: Every time you get going nicely, in barges some alien influence and the Muse goes blooey.
at go blooey (v.) under blooey!, excl.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 376: If you yourself have been booted out.
at boot out (v.) under boot, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 515: Gosh-dingit, you leave me a coupla days back saying you’re going to stick up this bozo.
at bozo, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 497: Of all the bunk games!
at bunk, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 493: Well, if this ain’t the cat’s whiskers!
at cat’s whiskers, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 499: When it comes to doping out a scheme, you’re the snake’s eyebrows! [Ibid.] 517: When it comes to the smooth stuff, old girl, you’re the oyster’s eye-tooth!
at cat’s whiskers, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 496: I’d chummed up with a fellow who had been invited down to the place.
at chum along with (v.) under chum, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 446: I think the boy’s noncompos.
at non compos, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 368: If you were copped, nobody could say a word, because husband pinching from wife isn’t stealing.
at copped, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 522: Two thousand of the crispiest.
at crisp, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 436: They are, I can readily imagine, distinctly oojah-cum-spiff.
at oojah-cum-spiff, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 517: While everybody’s cutting up and what-the-helling.
at cut up, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 495: I made the biggest kind of a hit with the dame this necklace belongs to.
at dame, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 494: Still, it’s done me in. I tried once or twice, but I couldn’t seem to make the cards behave no more, so I quit.
at do in, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 568: You’re the sort of dumb Isaac that couldn’t find a bass-drum in a telephone booth.
at dumb isaac (n.) under dumb, adj.1
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 571: And if it isn’t hidden somewheres in that McTodd’s shack down there in the woods I’ll eat my Sunday rubbers.
at eat one’s hat, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 514: You dish-faced gazooni!
at pie-faced, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 461: Yes, I should imagine that that would stick the gaff into the course of true love to no small extent.
at gaff, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 515: You’re going to stick up this bozo [...] with a gat.
at gat, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 514: You dish-faced gazooni!
at gazooney, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 506: The Beach gook [...] has got something wrong with the lining of his stomach.
at gook, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith (1993) 515: Gosh-dingit, you leave me a coupla days back saying you’re going to stick up this bozo.
at gosh-ding (v.) under gosh, n.
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