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Right Ho, Jeeves choose

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[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 204: A simple, jolly, kindly young pimple she had always struck me as.
at pimple, n.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 166: The kitchen maid — as C3 a performer as ever wielded a skillet.
at C-3, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 185: How are we to know that this has all been open and above board?
at above board, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 102: The browsing and sluicing had been of the highest quality.
at browsing and sluicing, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 97: My guardian angel had not been asleep at the switch.
at asleep at the switch, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 98: My attensh had been wandering.
at attensh, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 76: It cannot fail to bring home the gravy.
at bring home the bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 62: The fellow’s bally life was being ruined by the loss of a girl.
at bally, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 149: Tuppy, my dear old ass [...] this is pure banana oil.
at banana oil (n.) under banana, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 138: I’d pity the girl who was linked for life to a bargee like Tuppy Glossop.
at bargee, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 173: He was staring before him with a smile so fixed and pebble-beached.
at pebble-beached, adj.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 34: And with these heartless words she beetled off.
at beetle, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 114: The more he tried to jab, the more I said ‘Hoots, mon’, ‘Begorrah’, and ‘Oy, oy’.
at begorra!, excl.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 65: It would be the fine, big thing, old egg.
at big thing, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 183: Here’s your book. Looks rather bilge to me from a glance at the title page.
at bilge, n.
[UK] Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 152: Staring before him rather like a strong, silent man in a novel, when he’s just been given the bird by the girl.
at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
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