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[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 205: There are all sorts of laws about the places, but anyone who wants can get round them as easy as falling off a log.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 204: They didn’t amount to a row of beans till Lawson started his ‘Frenzied Finance’ articles.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 201: It is unusual for the substitute-editor of a weekly paper to do a Captain Kidd act.
at do a/an — act (v.) under act, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 252: Jack, he said, had shown signs for some time past of asking for it in the neck.
at ask for it (v.) under ask, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 229: There are four main gangs [...] the smallest of them’s large enough to put us away, if we give them the chance.
at put away, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 291: Eddie stayed nineteen rounds against Jimmy, and if I can put him away, it gets me into line with Jimmy.
at put away, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 183: Say! [...] Any time you’re in bad. Glad to be of service.
at in bad under bad, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 194: By the time you return, with a century or two, I trust, in your bag, the good work should, I fancy, be getting something of a move on.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 334: To start bally-ragging a seeming nonentity.
at ballyrag, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 279: With an aggrieved air, akin to that of a crowd at a cricket match when batsmen are playing for a draw, they began to ‘barrack’.
at barrack, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 188: We must [...] deliver him such a series of resentful biffs that he will abandon his little game and become a model citizen.
at biff, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 257: I’ll do my best to get this paper distributed right and it’s a shame if it ain’t, because it’s going big just now.
at go big (v.) under big, adv.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 343: He did not repine. He bit the bullet. His eyes closed.
at bite the bullet (v.) under bite, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 220: Don’t bite at me [...] This isn’t my funeral. I’ve no kick coming.
at bite, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 195: I was sittin’ here, readin’ me book, when de foist of de guys blew in.
at blow in, v.2
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 221: The man behind is a big bug.
at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 171: ‘Bully for you, Pugsy!’ he cried.
at bully for —! (excl.) under bully, adj.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 259: They carry ‘cannisters’ and sometimes fire them off.
at canister, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 216: Youse can’t butt in dere [...] Chase yerself.
at go chase yourself! (excl.) under chase, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 338: If the People are chumps enough to elect you, then they deserve you.
at chump, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 234: On these were seated as tough-looking a collection of citizens as one might wish to see.
at citizen, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 294: The Law was now about to clean up the place.
at clean up, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 170: I’m de guy what’s goin’ to swat youse one on de coco.
at coco, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 259: They ‘stick up’ an occasional wayfarer for his ‘cush’.
at cush, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 299: Has anybody cut up rough about the stuff you’ve printed?
at cut up rough, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 271: There’s going to be something doing if they don’t cut it out quick.
at cut it, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 264: Dere’s a feller comes round [...] an’ den it’s up to de fam’lies what lives in de tenements to dig down into deir jeans fer de stuff.
at dig down (v.) under dig, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 195: ‘Nuttin’ doing,’ says I.
at nothing doing, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 309: ‘Well,’ he said, ‘what’s doin?’.
at what’s doing?, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 209: He’s wearin’ a dude suit an’ shiny shoes.
at dude, adj.
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