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Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 84: You were as drunk as a besom.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 84: You were as drunk as a besom. Adventures of Verdant Green (1893) 212: ‘Hullo, Pet!... bring yourself to an anchor, my man.’ The Pet accordingly anchored himself by dropping on to the edge of a chair.at bring oneself to an anchor (v.) under anchor, n.
‘Cuthbert Bede’ Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 7: So he warms him too; and then we go on all jolly. It’s awful fun, I can tell you.at awful, adv.
‘Cuthbert Bede’ Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 58: Just jump into a pair of bags and Wellingtons.at bags, n.2
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 81: Why the beggar’s asleep already!at beggar, n.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 54: I suppose the old bird was your governor.at bird, n.1
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 131: He taught me [...] to make shandy-gaff and sherry-cobbler, and brew bishop and egg-flip.at bishop, n.2
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 8: His aunt Virginia was as learned a Blue as her esteemed ancestress in the court of Elizabeth, the very Virgin Queen of Blues.at blue, n.1
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 129: And Mr Bouncer ‘went the complete unicorn’ [...] by extemporizing a farewell solo to Verdant.at bouncer, n.1
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 118: He told Verdant, that his claret had been repeatedly tapped, his bread-basket walked into [...] and his whole person put in chancery.at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I Ch. x: If he foreswore the primitive garments that his country-tailor had condemned him to wear, and adapted the build of his dress to the peculiar requirements of university fashion.at build, n.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 77: Fill up a bumper to the health of our esteemed host Smalls.at bumper, n.2
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 81: Well, Gig-lamps, and By-by won’t be at all a bad move for you.at bye-bye(s), n.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 72: Those who can’t afford a coach get a cab, — alias a crib, — alias a translation.at cab, n.4
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 6: The jolly mills they used to have with the town cads.at cad, n.1
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 116: His own rooms were [...] removed from the possibility of his friends, when he had sported his oak, being able to get through his window and ‘chaff’ him.at chaff, v.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 94: He’s cheap as dirt, sir, at four-ten!at cheap as dirt (adj.) under cheap, adj.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 81: I’ll take off his choker and make him easy about the neck.at choker, n.1
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 118: He told Verdant, that his claret had been repeatedly tapped [...] and his whole person put in chancery, stung, bruised, fibbed, propped, fiddled, slogged, and otherwise ill-treated.at tap someone’s claret (v.) under claret, n.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 84: Peakyish you feel, don’t you now, with a touch of the mulligrubs in your collywobbles.at collywobbles, n.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 95: There’s the cove that’ll do the trick for you!at cove, n.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 72: Those who can’t afford a coach get a cab, — alias a crib, — alias a translation.at crib, n.3
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 118: He told Verdant, that his claret had been repeatedly tapped, his bread-basket walked into, his day-lights darkened.at daylights, n.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 67: How many jolly nights have you and I, Larkyns, passed ‘down among the dead men’.at down among the dead men under dead man, n.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 105: Our hero [...] strolled round the the neatly-kept potato-gardens denominated ‘the Parks’, looking in vain for the deer that have never been there, and finding them represented only by nursery maids and — others.at deer, n.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 53: He turned to Mr Filcher and asked him, ‘What the doose he meant by not waiting on his master?’.at what the deuce...?, phr.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 127: If Huz, and Buz, his brother, didn’t do their duty by him, it would be doosid odd.at deuced, adv.
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 67: I am going to wine with Smalls to-night [...] and I dare say Smalls will do the civil and ask you also. [Ibid.] II 158: Oh, blow it, Gig-lamps [...] you’ll never go and do the mean, and show the white feather, will you?at do the — (v.) under do, v.1
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 127: Verdant gave up his name and that of his college with a thrill of terror, and nearly fell off the drag from fright.at drag, n.1
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 39: The Kidderminster carpet [...] had been charred and burnt into holes with the fag-ends of cigars.at fag end, n.
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