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[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: Does the name Rumpers ring a bell?
at ring a bell (v.) under bell, n.1
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: Come on, buck up.
at buck up!, excl.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act II: Shut your cakehole, before I give you a bunch of fives.
at bunch of fives, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: Busty girls in flowered scanties.
at busty, adj.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: I think they’ve clicked, Scorpio and Sagittarius. Lovely combo.
at combo, n.2
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act II: Otherwise, one word and it’s curtains, finito.
at curtains, n.1
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: You go home and get your knickers / And I’ll race you to the vicar’s / And it’s ends away.
at end, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: Then we fetched up in Rhodesia.
at fetch up, v.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: And what’s happened to the galloping consumption you had last Thursday?
at galloping, adj.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act II: Now, Dennis, he’s not a glamour puss. Never will be.
at glamour puss (n.) under glamour, adj.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act II: Tut, tut, tut. Hard lines, Perce.
at hard lines, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: Get out, you lounge lizard.
at lounge lizard (n.) under lounge, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: Mad? You? You Mickey Mouse. Why don’t you marry someone your own size?
at Mickey Mouse, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act II: Only when we docked did I realize I had a bun in the club.
at have a bun in the oven (v.) under oven, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: You little pratt.
at prat, n.1
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act II: You’re a stinker, Arthur Wicksteed. [...] A rotter.
at rotter, n.1
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act II: She wasn’t just something on the side.
at on the side (adv.) under side, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act II: Then I had to get my skates on for Evensong.
at get one’s skates on (v.) under skate, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act I: I see it all. His ruse I rumble: That spotless girl he means to tumble.
at tumble, v.1
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