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Much Obliged, Jeeves choose

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[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 83: While tight as an owl.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 108: Generally these rural pubs are all right in the matter of browsing.
at browsing and sluicing, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 106: A beefy butler sort of bird slammed the door in my face.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 47: ‘You mean Florence is here as well?’ ‘With bells on. You seem perturbed.’.
at with bells on under bell, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 50: A dreamy old bird of the absent-minded professor type.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 42: Of all the soppy families introduced to his notice the Bassetts took the biscuit.
at take the biscuit, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 165: Shut up, you bleeder.
at bleeder, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 16: What blighters babies are, Bertie, dribbling, as they do.
at blighter, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 77: Do you know a local blister of the name of Mrs McCorkadale?
at blister, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 165: I shall be happy to knock his ugly block off.
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 9: Hullo to you, you young blot. Are you sober?
at blot, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 143: Jeeves blew in.
at blow in, v.2
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 26: Blow me tight if the b.p. wasn’t Jeeves.
at blow me tight!, excl.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 168: Well, I’ll be blowed.
at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 124: In signing on the dotted line with Florence I had made the boner of a lifetime.
at boner, n.3
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 84: England is strewn with ex-fiances whom she bounced.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 67: You didn’t make a speech of any sort before getting down to brass tacks?
at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 54: I presumed Uncle Tom would brass up.
at brass up (v.) under brass, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 129: I shook the loaf sadly.
at loaf (of bread), n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 167: A really sensational event [...] she had just been present at must have bucked her up like a week at the seaside.
at buck up, v.2
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 84: He thinks Florence will give him the bum’s rush if he loses.
at bum’s rush, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 6: A natural disinclination to get bunged out of a well-loved club.
at bung, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 169: She, of course, assured that there would be no funny business, [...] withdrew her objections.
at funny business, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 141: The leaders of Society [...] would raise an eyebrow or two at carryings-on of this description.
at carrying-on, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 60: Oh, hullo, Spode old chap, I mean Lord Sidcup old chap.
at old chap, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 74: Different from a barmaid. She cheeks the chaps.
at cheek, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 134: No joke for a girl [...] to have the fellow say ‘April fool, my little chickadee’.
at chickadee, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 99: Bingley now being in the chips.
at in the chips under chip, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 143: Further chit-chat was suspended.
at chitchat, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 4: They clicked immediately.
at click, v.3
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