1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 284: Pop [...] ordered himself a double Johnny Walker and urged Angela and the Brigadier to knock theirs back and quick.at knock back, v.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 281: Beetie Fanshawe was beefy. You could have cut his face up into prime red steaks.at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 246: Hot weather affected you at all? [...] It’s caned a lot of people.at cane, v.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 236: ‘I see you too have a Rolls,’ Mrs Jerebohm said. ‘Oh! that old crate. That’s a laugh.’.at crate, n.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 282: You stand there, you croaker, and tell me it’s going to be heated?at croaker, n.1
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 278: For crying out gently, Pop thought. What next?at for crying out loud!, excl.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 241: I’ll take you down there when you had a deck at the house.at deck, n.2
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 144: This was the right time, if ever, to let the dog see the rabbit.at let the dog see the rabbit (v.) under dog, n.2
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 235: No chance of that, Pop said. Not if he knew it. No fear.at no fear!, excl.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 244: Everything grows ’ell for leather.at hell for leather (adv.) under hell, n.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 264: By Jove, I could lie here all night.at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 234: He needed a real blinder of a pick-me-up to restore his sanity.at pick-me-up, n.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 263: One for the road? [...] Come on, one more for the road.at one for the road (n.) under one, n.1
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 287: Get outside that one [...] and I’ll mix you another.at get outside (of) (v.) under outside, adv.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 287: You look a bit peaky, Mr Jerebohm.at peaky, adj.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 263: Got your pecker up all right now, haven’t you? [...] Not down in the dumps now, are you?at pecker, n.2
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 238: Mr Jerebohm was determined not to be sold any pups.at sell a pup (v.) under sell, v.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 281: She was a girl of spanking bosom.at spanking, adj.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 279: I shouldn’t have thought you were cold [...] with the steamy way that Mrs Perigo kept looking at you. I hope you didn’t get any ideas about her?at steamy, adj.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 297: Not sure you haven’t gone and torn it now.at tear it (v.) under tear, v.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 289: The unexpected vision of a man riding home from a fox-hunt with a brace of pheasants slung across his horse was altogether too much to bear. Dammit, it wasn’t the thing.at thing, the, n.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 252: ‘Thundering hot still,’ Pop said.at thundering, adv.
1960 H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 260: I adore the pink. It’s absolutely me. Quite my favourite tipple.at tipple, n.