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[UK] Derby Day 57: A buxom Abigail admitted the gentleman.
at abigail, n.1
[UK] Derby Day 51: All-overish — eh!
at all-overish, adj.1
[UK] Derby Day 42: ‘Throw your teeth at a stuffed donkey,’ exclaimed the trainer. ‘Don’t you talk to me; I’m all there, don’t you make a mistake, guv’nor.’.
at all there, adj.
[UK] Derby Day 42: ‘Right you are,’ replied the jockey.
at right you are!, excl.
[UK] Derby Day 46: He’ll win it, mate, sure as eggs is eggs!
at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
[UK] Derby Day 54: Oh, it’s all a ball! I’ll keep dark till we collar the scoundrels.
at ball, n.3
[UK] Derby Day 51: I know he’s a blarneying Irishman.
at blarney, v.
[UK] Derby Day 37: But about those swells who ain’t a going in a buster?
at go in a buster (v.) under buster, n.2
[UK] Derby Day 45: The jockey’s gone to bye-bye.
at go (to) bye-bye(s) (v.) under bye-bye(s), n.
[UK] Derby Day 95: This one I’m selling [...] cheap as dirt.
at cheap as dirt (adj.) under cheap, adj.
[UK] Derby Day 155: ‘That will do, mother,’ he said; ‘I think I have had my five shillings’ worth;’ but the gipsy would not be ‘choked off’ until she had finished the ‘patter’ she had learnt by heart.
at choke off, v.
[UK] Derby Day 98: I’m a chump of wood, sir! I’m a chump of wood!
at chunk of wood, phr.
[UK] Derby Day 117: Cocky, you go up to Wainwrights in the Lane.
at cocky, n.1
[UK] Derby Day 39: As sure as the sun shines, Askapart’ll lick ’em; if so be [...] as there ain’t no cross.
at cross, n.1
[UK] Derby Day 16: There are men who do not disdain muffin-worries and crumpet-scrambles.
at crumpet-scramble (n.) under crumpet, n.
[UK] Derby Day 51: I know he’s a blarneying Irishman; but s’help me, I didn’t think he’d do the thing what’s dirty [i.e. drug a horse].
at do (the) dirty (v.) under dirty, n.
[UK] Derby Day 93: The cigars he offered you [...] were, in the language of the race-course, ‘duffers’.
at duffer, n.1
[UK] Derby Day 57: ‘I feel confoundedly dull, and I was just wishing for someone to rouse me up a little.’ ‘Unhinged, eh?’.
at eh?, phr.
[UK] Derby Day 48: Something’s upset you, Littl’un [...] what’s the fakement. Let’s have it straightforward, and no kid.
at fakement, n.
[UK] Derby Day 70: ‘You won’t goat me?’ ‘I won’t touch you this time.’.
at goat, v.
[UK] Derby Day 102: You take a hook, now, d’ye hear?
at sling one’s hook, v.
[UK] Derby Day 68: It’ll be a hot ’un, I expect when I let them in.
at hot ’un (n.) under hot, adj.
[UK] Derby Day 47: We’ll make it hot for the Sinclair stable!
at make it hot for (v.) under hot, adj.
[UK] Derby Day 68: By jingoes! it’s Tony Rous.
at jingo!, excl.
[UK] Derby Day 48: Something’s upset you, Littl’un [...] what’s the fakement. Let’s have it straightforward, and no kid.
at no kidding under kid, v.
[UK] Derby Day 69: What! to be larruped? Not if I know. You must think me a jolly knocksoftly.
at knock-softly (n.) under knock, v.
[UK] Derby Day 110: It’s a splendid turn out. ‘Right up to the knocker,’ as they say. I don’t do things by halves when I go out.
at up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
[UK] Derby Day 39: Ted’s tip was worth all the tips of prophets, touts, and ‘knowing ones’ put together.
at knowing, adj.
[UK] Derby Day 68: Let us in, and look slippery.
at look slippery! (excl.) under look, v.
[UK] Derby Day 51: I am surprised at Paddy. If I ain’t strike me bob.
at strike me blind! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
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