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[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness III 79: I have the means of doing that, as safe as houses.
at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness III 141: ‘What’s this new Irish horse like, Tanner?’ [...] ‘A bad ’un, miss; a rank bad ’un as ever stepped!’.
at bad ’un (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness III 57: The very copying-clerk [...] had been seen to wink his eye, and heard to mention some such article as ‘a bit of muslin’.
at bit of muslin (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness II 45: He’s a thoroughly changed buffer, is Jim.
at buffer, n.3
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness I 126: He did carry on with you in the most shameful manner.
at carry on, v.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness II 121: It’s a tremendous fluke.
at fluke, n.2
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness I 124: The enthusiastic gusher who flings his or herself upon our necks, and insists upon sharing our sorrow.
at gusher, n.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness III 128: I can understand it all, you’ve been worked upon by the chatter and magging of these silly women until you’ve lost your own calm common sense.
at mag, v.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness (1873) xv 143: A house in Great Adullam Street, Macpelah Square, in that district of London whilom [sic] known as Mesopotamia [F&H].
at Mesopotamia, n.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness I 69: I was confoundedly seedy, and my doctor told me I wanted more ozone.
at ozone, n.1
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness II 297: ‘That’s a queer customer,’ said Kate [...] ‘A very queer customer.’.
at queer customer (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness I 69: From the Doctor’s I went to the Rag and found Meaburn there.
at rag, n.2
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness I 63: As De Blague [...] was leaning over the rails in the Row, Miss Mellon rode up.
at Row, the, n.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness II 112: If it rested with me, doctor, I’d give him unlimited leave; confer on him the order of the ‘sack’.
at order of the sack (n.) under sack, n.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness II 281: Tell Moss to put the screw on, and he’ll pay up fast enough.
at put the screw(s) on (v.) under screw, n.1
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness II 150: It is simply by professing hopeless, unswerving, unconquerable spooniness.
at spooniness (n.) under spoon, n.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness II 149: It’s all squared already.
at square, adj.
[UK] E. Yates Broken to Harness I 267: I’ll wager there’ll be ‘wigs upon the green.’.
at wigs on the green (n.) under wig, n.2
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