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[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 158: He could see no troubles there [...] Reason suggested that there were probably one or two knocking about somewhere, but this was no time to think of them.
at knock about, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 100: In life it was beautiful, but now it has done the Tom Bowling act. It has gone aloft.
at do the — act (v.) under act, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 69: Then you have me, so to speak, where the hair is crisp.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 61: Make a long arm for the shovel, Comrade Jackson.
at make a long arm (v.) under arm, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 35: It seems to me [...] that we are in for a pretty rotten time of it in this bally bank.
at bally, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 114: Had he not unfortunately dislocated the radius bone of his bazooka while training.
at bazooka, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 101: Our revered chief would be more or less caught bending.
at catch someone bending (v.) under bend, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 56: A chance of catching him (in the inspired language of the music-halls) on the bend.
at on the bend (adj.) under bend, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 27: You’re the dickens of a big pot right away, with a big screw and a dozen native Johnnies under you.
at big pot, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 71: There was no denying that it was a big thing for the bank.
at big thing, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 35: At the hard-headed, common-sense business you sneak the biscuit every time with ridiculous ease.
at take the biscuit, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 157: Be a man. Bite the bullet. The first keen pang will pass.
at bite the bullet (v.) under bite, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 52: A somewhat dashed, blanked idiot. [Ibid.] 135: What the dickens are you standing there for, mooing like a blanked cow?
at blanked, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 43: The sympathetic cooperation of that record blitherer, Comrade Jellicoe.
at blitherer, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 88: ‘You ’op it,’ concluded the man in blue. ‘That’s what you do. You ’op it.’.
at boys in blue, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 130: The hooligan who bonnets a policeman is apparently the victim of a sudden impulse.
at bonnet, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 147: I think we may say Comrade Jackson has secured the Order of the Boot.
at order of the boot (n.) under boot, the, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 131: End by getting some foul sort of fever [...] and being booted out as no further use to the bank.
at boot out (v.) under boot, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 62: I was amazed [...] to hear Comrade Bickersdyke urging certain bravoes in the audience to turn me out.
at bravo, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 120: All these petty breezes [...] must be very trying to a man in your position.
at breeze, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 109: The former had been so very cheery and breezy.
at breezy, adj.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 105: Look here, you’d better nip back [...] Buck along.
at buck, v.4
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 75: Now where am I? In the cart.
at in the cart under cart, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 147: This bank business is far from being much of a catch.
at catch, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 108: Mr Waller, still chirpy, had nothing but good news of Edward.
at chirpy, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 36: I have gleaned, from casual chit-chat with my father, that Comrade Bickersdyke also infests the Senior Conservative.
at chitchat, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 92: Do not let us try to wrap the fact up in pleasant words. We were being chivvied.
at chivvy, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 111: Jackson isn’t half copping it from old Bick.
at cop it, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 141: There was no doubt that he had cut the painter once and for all.
at cut the painter, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 48: Work, the hobby of the hustler and the deadbeat’s dread.
at deadbeat, n.
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