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[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 418: Saw a squaddie, drunk as arseholes.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 459: I was pretty nearly bonkers and for no reason.
at bonkers, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 424: The Aussies blamed us and the Brits for lack of air cover.
at Brit, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 433: Well, what d’ya know! [...] She’s not Persian after all.
at what do you know?, phr.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 397: You’re down now, but it won’t last. You’ll jump out of it, see if you don’t.
at down, adv.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 461: That’s good, coming from Lady Hooper’s fancy man.
at fancy man, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 415: And have some Levantine floosie snap him up?
at floozy, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 459: Just like a school pi-jaw.
at pi-jaw, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 391: Afore I come to this kip, all I ever done was shovel coal.
at kip, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 446: Near them lay one of the young women known to officers as ‘Gezira lovelies’.
at lovely, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 442: I was never keen on mugging up school books.
at mug (up), v.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 417: They don’t want the Russkies to advance on that front.
at Russki, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 460: A nice-looking girl like Harriet dead and that old trout survives!
at old trout (n.) under trout, n.2
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