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[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk I 4: Waiter, bring me a tumbler of Badminton.
at badminton, n.
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk IV 132: Hang me if I wasn’t blind drunk at the end of it.
at blind drunk (adj.) under blind, adv.1
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk IV 176: A pretty go when a fellow in a blue coat fetches you the Devil’s own con on your head.
at bluecoat, n.
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk IV 80: I’d advise you and Hell Fire Dick to stir your chalks.
at walk one’s chalks (v.) under chalks, n.
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk III 13: I have seen the people [...] so clammed that I never tasted nothing but a potatoe.
at clammed, adj.
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk IV 7: Sloane always was a croaker.
at croaker, n.1
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk VI 214: There is none: my mistress says that not a man John of them is to be seen.
at every man jack (n.) under every, adj.
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk III 18: One too often drives away from a country-house, rather hipped.
at hipped, adj.1
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk III 11: Ask for the young queen’s picture, and you would soon have to put your shirt on.
at queen’s picture (n.) under queen, n.
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk V I 210: I should like to hear the top-sawyer from London.
at top sawyer, n.
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk III 42: It’s a scarlet shame to go to the spout because money lent to a friend is not to be found.
at spout, n.2
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk III 8: All I have got is tommy, and what shall it be, bacon or cheese?
at tommy, n.2
[UK] Disraeli Sybil Bk VI 177: ‘Then it is U-P,’ said Mick.
at u.p., adv.
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