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My Man Jeeves choose

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[UK] Wodehouse ‘’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘A stiff b.-and-s. first of all, and then I’ve a bit of news for you’.
at b and s, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Aunt and the Sluggard’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] [S]moking a cigarette and resting the old bean.
at bean, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘I can almost see the headlines: ‘Promising Young Artist Beans Baby With Axe.’”.
at bean, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘I rather fancy, sir, that his lordship’s bit of time will have run out by then’.
at bit, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] [T]he trouble about old Chiswick was that, though an extremely wealthy old buster [...] he was notoriously the most prudent spender in England. He was what American chappies would call a hard-boiled egg.
at hard-boiled egg, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] [T]ime, instead of working the healing wheeze, went and pulled the most awful bone and put the lid on it.
at pull a boner (v.) under boner, n.3
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘The nurse takes the kid out ostensibly to get a breather, and they beat it down here’.
at breather, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘It’s a cert!’ I said. ‘An absolute cinch!’ said Corky.
at cinch, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] Corky’s uncle was a robust sort of cove, who looked like living for ever.
at cove, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] Naturally the poor chap’s face dropped, for this [comment] seemed to dish the whole thing.
at dish, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘I’m done, Bertie!’ he said. He had another go at the glass. It didn’t seem to do him any good.
at done, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] I couldn’t get rid of the feeling that, sooner or later, I was the lad who was scheduled to get it behind the ear.
at get it behind the ear (v.) under ear, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] I gave Motty the swift east-to-west. He was sitting [...] blinking at the wall.
at east-to-west, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘I know the man who runs the comic section of the Sunday Star. He’ll eat this thing [i.e. a cartoon]’.
at eat up, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] Bicky, poor fish, absolutely on his uppers.
at poor fish (n.) under fish, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘Lend me a fiver, Bertie. I want to take a taxi down to Park Row!’.
at fiver, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Aunt and the Sluggard’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] Jimmy had just come to New York on a hit-the-trail campaign, and I had popped in at the Garden [...] to hear him.
at Garden, the, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] [M]y cousin Gussie, who was in with a lot of people down Washington Square way.
at in, adv.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Rallying Round Old George’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] [A]n income, after-all, is only an income, whereas a chunk of o’ goblins is a pile.
at Jimmy O’Goblin, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Aunt and the Sluggard’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] [H]e’s more like what the poet Johnnie called some bird of his acquaintance.
at johnny, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] What Corky kicked at was the way the above Worple used to harry him.
at kick, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] [T]ime, instead of working the healing wheeze, went and pulled the most awful bone and put the lid on it.
at put the lid on (v.) under lid, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Doing Clarence a Bit of Good’ in My Man Jeeves 195: If you’re absolutely off your rocker, but don’t find it convenient to be scooped into a luny-bin, you simply explain ... it was just your Artistic Temperament.
at loony bin (n.) under loony, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Leave It to Jeeves’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] It struck me that it was playing it a bit low-down on the poor chap, avoiding him like this.
at lowdown, adv.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Aunt and the Sluggard’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] [of New York City] [B]y Jove, you know, dear old Rocky made him look like a publicity agent for the old metrop!
at metrop, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘Devilish efficient sort of chappie, and looked on in commercial circles as quite the nib!’.
at nib, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Rallying Round Old George’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘You didn’t do a thing to His Serene Nibs, did you?’.
at his nibs (n.) under nibs, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘I must see more of that lad [i.e. Jeeves]. He seems to me distinctly one of the ones!’.
at one of the ones (n.) under one, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] [H]e was a frightful chump, so we naturally drifted together [and] we had subsequently become extremely pally.
at pally, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest’ in My Man Jeeves [ebook] ‘That pill is coming to stay here.’ ‘Pill, sir?’ ‘The excrescence’.
at pill, n.
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