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Martha and I choose

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[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 205: I definitely refused to advance a ‘tanner’ [...] to aid a ‘gen’leman what is a bit in the downs’.
at down-and-out, adj.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 251: There is a joviality about Christmas time [...] but the voice of Nature that night sounded a trifle beery, and I made haste to get home.
at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 251: I asked straight for a goose. [...] ‘Yes; prime ’uns,’ was the reply. ‘Here, Bill,’—to an assistant—‘chuck up a dicky for this toff.’.
at dicky-bird, n.1
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 46: There is one haughty beast with a swell rig and a swivel eye whom I would give pounds to bump.
at bump, v.1
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 72: Being of a chummy disposition, I walked over [...] to engage in a conversation.
at chummy, adj.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 223: ‘Don’t be fly, young feller,’ said the policeman.
at fly, adj.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 66: She, Mrs. Tucklebury, is a ‘grizzle-guts’.
at grizzle-guts (n.) under grizzle, v.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 95: Take your beastly old jigger out of my eye.
at jigger, n.5
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 205: I became a ‘measley mackerel’ on the spot.
at mackerel, n.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 218: He slapped Billy Winks in the face [...] and told him to shut up.
at shut up, v.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 85: He is a big, square, slab-sided, energetic individual.
at slab-sides (n.) under slab, n.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Martha and I 217: Tubby Jenkins has been and gone and hypnertised these fellers.
at tubby, n.
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