1910 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
1910 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.
1910 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.
1910 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.
1910 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.
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 114: Had he not unfortunately dislocated the radius bone of his bazooka while training.at bazooka, n.1
1910 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
1910 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
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 71: There was no denying that it was a big thing for the bank.at big thing, n.
1910 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.
1910 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.
1910 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.
1910 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.
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 43: The sympathetic cooperation of that record blitherer, Comrade Jellicoe.at blitherer, n.1
1910 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.
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 130: The hooligan who bonnets a policeman is apparently the victim of a sudden impulse.at bonnet, v.
1910 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.
1910 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
1910 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.
1910 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
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 109: The former had been so very cheery and breezy.at breezy, adj.1
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 105: Look here, you’d better nip back [...] Buck along.at buck, v.4
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 146: Where’s a cab? Hi, cabby! No, that one’s got someone in it.at cabby, n.1
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 75: Now where am I? In the cart.at in the cart under cart, n.1
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 147: This bank business is far from being much of a catch.at catch, n.
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 108: Mr Waller, still chirpy, had nothing but good news of Edward.at chirpy, adj.
1910 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
1910 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
1910 Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 111: Jackson isn’t half copping it from old Bick.at cop it, v.
1910 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.