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Bursting world : an autobiography, 1936-45 choose

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[SA] (con. 1939) G. Butler Bursting World 103: I found myself on the receiving end of [...] African time. Five p.m. meant five p.m. for only one of us, me.
at African (people’s) time (n.) under African, adj.
[SA] (con. 1944) G. Butler Bursting World 221: ‘Papa’ Brits was not used to being interrupted [...] least of all by orders in incomprehensible German. ‘Jerry,’ he exclaimed testily, ‘get off my blerry air’ [radio wavelength].
at blerry, adj.
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