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Poached Eggs and Pearls choose

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[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 15: george: That lady what’s waiting on us is a bit of all right, too. bill: Ah! she’s a one-er, she is.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 16: bill: Do you reckon we could say we’d changed our minds and like a cup of tea instead? george: Not now we’ve drunk it. That tall one saw me with my beak inside.
at beak, n.2
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 25: Lady Penzance is a spiteful caterpillar.
at caterpillar, n.1
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 16: Look at Lady Penzance giving him the glad eye!
at give someone the eye (v.) under eye, n.
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 19: But this ’ere cocoa! [...] I can’t ’elp it, old man, it fairly makes me ’eave.
at heave, v.
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 7: [to a woman] You’re a regular knut at the sink.
at knut, n.
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 19: You take a lick, old pal. Just take a good long lick.
at lick, n.1
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 15: george: That lady what’s waiting on us is a bit of all right, too. bill: Ah! she’s a one-er, she is.
at oner, n.
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 14: What do you bet? Poached eggs on toast or soss and mash!
at sausie, n.
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 16: lady mabel: Look at Lady Penzance giving him the glad eye! lady clara: The snark! She’ll watch me like a lynx.
at snark, n.
[UK] G. Jennings Poached Eggs and Pearls (1917) 14: Squattez vous, George.
at squattez-vous, phr.
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