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A Breath of French Air choose

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[UK] H.E. Bates Breath of French Air (1985) 186: Charley was as drunk as a newt. Pickled.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] H.E. Bates Breath of French Air (1985) 192: The party wouldn’t be complete if the children didn’t have custard and jelly for afters.
at afters, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 158: The women said [...] ‘Bad show’ and sometimes even ‘Damme’.
at bad show! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 139: I think I’ll buzz round and have a snifter.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Breath of French Air (1985) 225: That was a corker.
at corker, n.2
[UK] H.E. Bates Breath of French Air (1985) 150: There must be a doings in the bedroom somewhere.
at doings, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 128: Eatin’ frogs’ legs and snails and me talking froggy.
at Froggie, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 127: I’m getting a bit tangled up with this froggy lark.
at froggy, adj.1
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 176: Hocked ’em all to one of the fishing boat skippers this afternoon.
at hock, v.1
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 205: Absolutely delectable. Hot stuff.
at hot stuff, n.2
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 170: ‘Scream,’ Angela Snow said. ‘Killing.’.
at killing, adj.
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 205: It wasn’t half as good as she knocked up herself of a Sunday morning, she decided, but wasn’t bad really.
at knock up, v.
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 130: ‘Perhaps it would have been better if you’d got married after all,’ he said. ‘Well, I suppose we still could [...] But it’s a bit of a palaver.’.
at palaver, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Breath of French Air (1985) 127: And what the pipe does all that mean?
at pipe, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 183: ‘I like to pay.’ ‘Rhubarb!’ Charley said. ‘This one’s on me!’.
at rhubarb, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 221: That bill. It had very nearly skinned him out, he told Ma, very nearly skinned him.
at skin, v.1
[UK] H.E. Bates A Breath of French Air (1985) 155: I thought you were going to be a bit sticky about me and Ma. I don’t know – bit awkward. Were you?
at sticky, adj.1
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