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[UK] B. Adams Nothing of Importance 29: The relieving regiment, you find on your return, has done ‘damn all,’ which is military slang for ‘nothing’.
at damn-all, n.
[UK] B. Adams Nothing of Importance (1988) 198: We were each, by the way, ‘my bloke’ to our respective retainers.
at bloke, n.
[UK] B. Adams Nothing of Importance (1988) 225: But it [i.e. a book] leaves out bits [...] the utter fed-upness, and the dullness.
at fed-upness under fed up, adj.
[UK] B. Adams Nothing of Importance (1988) 187: I say, your Stokes were bursting top-hole. We had a splendid view.
at top-hole, adj.
[UK] B. Adams Nothing of Importance 84: We were ‘standing to’ after the mine, and for half an hour it was rather a ‘hot shop’ [...] I rather enjoyed it.
at hot shop (n.) under hot, adj.
[UK] B. Adams Nothing of Importance 71: You [...] have a pow-wow in the evening in which the O.C. ‘A’ is asked why he went off to the left.
at pow-wow, n.
[UK] B. Adams Nothing of Importance (1988) 251: ‘You had a good time at the Army School [...]?’ ‘Tip-top time.’.
at tip-top, adj.
[UK] B. Adams Nothing of Importance 59: I have never experienced since such an abject windiness.
at windiness (n.) under windy, adj.2
[UK] J.B. Adams ‘Nothing of Importance’ 82: Brigadiers not knowing their officers; poor lunches — all these things were a ‘bad show, a d — d bad show!’.
at bad show! (excl.) under bad, adj.
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