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[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 211: Did he come across?
at come across, v.
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 59: He couldn’t turn out to be a real bad hat after all these years, could he?
at bad hat, n.
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 67: ‘Jeremy Blah-blah and Richard Wah-wah,’ he announced.
at blah, n.
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 119: ‘In ten minutes you’ll be in old Moggie’s dressing room, Major,’ Mr Vick was saying with a bobbysox shiver.
at bobby soxer, n.
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 79: He’s no chicken. An elderly feller called Bullard. Been here years.
at chicken, n.
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 100: She will certainly expect six minutes chit-chat from me.
at chitchat, n.1
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 154: There is something experimental down here or I should have my conk seen to.
at conk, n.1
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 198: For God’s sake, Polly, be quiet, and don’t talk such cracking rot.
at cracking, adj.
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 84: ‘A bit of a facer at any time,’ murmured her visitor.
at facer, n.2
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 43: I thought the old sport would rather have his bits of nonsense kept somewhere where people who were kiddish like himself could enjoy them.
at kiddish (adj.) under kid, n.1
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 93: ‘I’m Charlie Muggins in person,’ he remarked.
at muggins, n.1
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 207: I think he’s parking something he doesn’t want to keep on him. The gun, even.
at park, v.
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 56: Freddy used to say you really are the finest stuffed shirt in captivity.
at stuffed shirt, n.
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 100: She will certainly expect six minutes chit-chat from me, and because she is really quite something I may feel like continuing after that.
at something, n.
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 66: The whole blessed place seems to be on the twist these days.
at twist, n.1
[UK] M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 62: ‘Hullo, darling, how were the shops?’ ‘Absolute whizz.’.
at whiz, adj.
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