1925 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 204: A simple, jolly, kindly young pimple she had always struck me as.at pimple, n.1
1925 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 36: Jeeves, who, however much he go off the rails in the matter of dress clothes [...] has always had a neat turn of phrase.at off the rails under rail, n.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 166: The kitchen maid — as C3 a performer as ever wielded a skillet.at C-3, adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 167: Gussie has been on a bender. He’s as tight as an owl.at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 169: In two shakes of a duck’s tail Gussie [...] will be distributing the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School.at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 103: It was a sensational renunciation and stuck out like a sore thumb. [Ibid.] 105: It sticks out a mile. There’s no other possible solution.at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 196: ‘Mr Fink-Nottle is in a somewhat inflamed cerebral condition.’ ‘That’s true. A bit above par at the moment, as it were?’.at above par, adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 185: How are we to know that this has all been open and above board?at above board, adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 220: I should, as a man of honour and sensibility, have no choice but to come across and kick in.at come across, v.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 17: If a chap is such a rabbit that he can’t get action when he’s handed the thing on a plate.at action, n.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 103: Isn’t it bad enough to have sat watching one of Anatole’s supremest dinners flit by [...] without having you make a song about it?at make a song and dance (about) (v.) under song and dance, n.1
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 102: The browsing and sluicing had been of the highest quality.at browsing and sluicing, n.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 106: I had given [...] little credence, considering it the unbalanced apple sauce of a bereaved man.at apple sauce, n.1
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 210: If you think I like it, you jolly well mistake yourself. I am so mad as a wet hen.at ...a wet hen under mad as..., adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 127: Hearing him attacked, my Cousin Angela’s womanly heart will be as sick as mud.at …mud (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 97: My guardian angel had not been asleep at the switch.at asleep at the switch, adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 28: In her spiritual make-up there is none of that subtle gosh-awfulness.at gosh-awfulness (n.) under gosh-awful, adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 76: It cannot fail to bring home the gravy.at bring home the bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 62: The fellow’s bally life was being ruined by the loss of a girl.at bally, adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 149: Tuppy, my dear old ass [...] this is pure banana oil.at banana oil (n.) under banana, n.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 138: I’d pity the girl who was linked for life to a bargee like Tuppy Glossop.at bargee, n.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 173: He was staring before him with a smile so fixed and pebble-beached.at pebble-beached, adj.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 83: He was smelling a rose at the moment in a limp sort of way, but removed the beak as I approached.at beak, n.2
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 135: She had been a happy, smiling English girl of the best type, full of beans and buck.at full of beans (adj.) under beans, n.3
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 114: The more he tried to jab, the more I said ‘Hoots, mon’, ‘Begorrah’, and ‘Oy, oy’.at begorra!, excl.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 183: Here’s your book. Looks rather bilge to me from a glance at the title page.at bilge, n.
1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 110: She was well wedged into a deep arm-chair, but nevertheless she staggered like billy-o.at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.