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The Man with Two Left Feet choose

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[UK] Wodehouse ‘Crowned Heads’ in Man with Two Left Feet 101: I guess it was raw work pulling a tale like that on the old man.
at pull a..., v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Extricating Young Gussie’ in Man with Two Left Feet 25: You don’t give a darn whether you see the needle or not.
at not give a damn, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘The Mixer’ in Man with Two Left Feet 57: A dog [...] can have a good heart, without chumming with every Tom, Dick, and Harry he meets.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Extricating Young Gussie’ Man with Two Left Feet 30: He didn’t suppose he would ever get any lunch again until he landed the big time.
at big time, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘The Making of Mac’s’ Man with Two Left Feet 130: But no, he just hung round looking black at all of them.
at black, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘The Mixer’ in Man with Two Left Feet 61: It isn’t like as if these blokes was ordinary blokes.
at bloke, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Extricating Young Gussie’ in Man with Two Left Feet 28: There’s practically nothing a Mannering-Phipps can do that doesn’t blot his escutcheon.
at blot one’s copybook, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘The Making of Mac’s’ in Man with Two Left Feet 129: Hot stuff, kid. This is a jolly fine boom you’re working for the old place.
at boom, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘The Making of Mac’s’ Man with Two Left Feet 133: We hadn’t seen nothing of her at MacFarland’s since the night when Andy bounced her pal.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘ Crowned Heads’ in Man with Two Left Feet 98: He of Tennessee would sasshay up in a flip manner and make a break. Ted, waiting close by, would resent his insolence.
at break, n.4
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Wilton’s Holiday’ Man with Two Left Feet 42: He told me the whole thing so simply and frankly that it broke me all up.
at break up, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘ Making of Mac’s’ in Man with Two Left Feet 129: Andy would have come down like half a ton of bricks on the first sign of slackness.
at like a ton of brick(s) (adv.) under brick, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Crowned Heads’ in Man with Two Left Feet 88: The feller that tries to get gay with me is going to get a call-down that’ll make him holler for his winter overcoat.
at calldown, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘ The Making of Mac’s’ in Man with Two Left Feet 135: The papers say that real human beings don’t carry on in that way.
at carry on, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘The Making of Mac’s’ Man with Two Left Feet 123: You be a credit to us, or I’ll fetch you a clip when you come home.
at clip, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse ‘ The Making of Mac’s’ in Man with Two Left Feet 122: It was a come-down in the world for me.
at come-down, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Extricating Young Gussie’ in Man with Two Left Feet 31: It was not a very pathetic song, being all about coons spooning in June under the moon.
at coon, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Crowned Heads’ Man with Two Left Feet 88: A darned sight too sweet.
at darned, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘At Geisenheimer’s’ Man with Two Left Feet 113: He was there to do his durnedest.
at do one’s darnedest (v.) under darned, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Extricating Young Gussie’ in Man with Two Left Feet 25: I’m dashed if I didn’t suddenly catch sight of the old lad.
at dash, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘A Sea Of Troubles’ in Man with Two Left Feet 187: Instinct told him that it would hurt like the very dickens.
at dickens, the, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘At Geisenheimer’s’ in Man with Two Left Feet 116: But, well, what do you know about that?
at what do you know?, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘The Mixer’ in Man with Two Left Feet 75: They aren’t keen on dogs here unless they’ve pulled down enough blue ribbons to sink a ship, and mongrels [...] don’t last long.
at pull down, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Extricating Young Gussie’ in Man with Two Left Feet 37: You suddenly went off and married that cane-sucking dude.
at dude, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Making of Mac’s’ in Man with Two Left Feet 123: He just thought a heap without opening his face.
at open one’s face (v.) under face, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Crowned Heads’ in Man with Two Left Feet 94: I fell for you directly I seen you.
at fall for, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Crowned Heads’ in Man with Two Left Feet 102: He fell for it right away.
at fall for, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Crowned Heads’ in Man with Two Left Feet 102: I figured your grandfather wouldn’t be well fixed in his information about it.
at fixed, adj.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Crowned Heads’ Man with Two Left Feet 98: He of Tennessee would then sasshay up in a flip manner.
at flip, adj.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Extricating Young Gussie’ in Man with Two Left Feet 38: I never knew when I might fluff my lines.
at fluff, v.1
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