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[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 106: So that’s why she’s been beating about the bush all this time.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 141: For two pins I’d chuck the whole wearisome business.
at chuck, v.2
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 132: Archibald will cut up rusty about the inoculations.
at cut up (a) rusty (v.) under cut up, v.1
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 149: You must be pretty busy to-day, with your partner dropping off suddenly like that.
at drop off, v.1
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 121: All those ducky little islands.
at ducky, adj.
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 172: She was quite off her head about him for a month or two.
at off one’s head, adj.
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 163: I ought to have roped in Jevons to do this.
at rope in, v.
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 159: I’ve got my missus to consider.
at missis, n.
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 150: I suppose you’re nosing about to find out what’s going to happen to the practice.
at nose around (v.) under nose, v.
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 157: Beastly difficult op.; I hate it.
at op, n.
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 160: I never came across anyone quite so starched.
at starched, adj.
[UK] H. Ashton Doctor Serocold (1936) 171: They were a weedy, second-rate, effeminate lot, to my mind.
at weedy, adj.
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