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[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 98: Nothing sticks the gaff into your chatelaine more than a guest being constantly a.w.o.l.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 13: Messing about in the parish and getting up village concerts.
at mess about, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 35: Wading in the Trafalgar Square fountain at five ack emma this morning.
at ack emma, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 51: The browsing and sluicing being concluded, the females rose.
at browsing and sluicing, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 125: One’s probably [...] telling you that the balloon’s gone up.
at when the balloon goes up under balloon, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 69: Of course I want you to win the bally girl you love.
at bally, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 28: As if a bomb had suddenly exploded inside the bean.
at bean, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 47: Faith and begob, that was no lady, that was my wife.
at begorra!, excl.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 48: The rest of the aunts didn’t say, ‘You betcher!’.
at you bet! (excl.) under bet, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 127: Fate, having biffed you in the eye, proceeds to kick you in the pants.
at biff, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 67: It would be wilfully deceiving my public to say that I did not take it big.
at take it big (v.) under big, adv.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 153: I had never supposed her capable of bilge like this.
at bilge, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 249: I quailed, as a matter of fact, like billy-o.
at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 71: That Lovers’ leap binge is fixed for next Thursday.
at binge, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 58: You won’t get the bird.
at get the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 99: She was in the process of doing the local green-fly a bit of no good.
at bit of no good (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 68: Oh, hell! Oh, blast! Oh, damn!
at blast!, excl.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 6: I disliked taking on blind dates.
at blind date, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 46: A youngish bloke in a well-cut dinner jacket.
at bloke, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 71: I can rely on you to foil and baffle that foul blot.
at blot, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 89: I used to take my English essay to be blue-pencilled by the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn.
at blue-pencil, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 120: He was now gay, bobbish, and boomps-a-daisy.
at bobbish, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 130: They stuck on like limpets long after any competent chucker-out would have bounced them.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 52: [A] broad-shouldered bozo of about thirty.
at bozo, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 78: And Gussie brassed up and was free?
at brass up (v.) under brass, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 58: You’ll go like a breeze.
at breeze, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 47: Entrusting her happiness to a dumb brick who would probably dish the success of the honeymoon.
at brick, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 56: And then she gave you the brusheroo?
at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 54: A very fine old port, full of buck and body.
at buck, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Mating Season 33: I remember hearing the Rev. Aubrey give the late Sir Philip Sydney a big build-up.
at build-up, n.
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