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Teresa of Watling Street choose

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[UK] A. Bennett Teresa of Watling Street 199: He said ‘Bosh!’.
at bosh!, excl.1
[UK] A. Bennett Teresa of Watling Street 74: ‘Now, my chuck,’ he said, ‘try if you can stand.’.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] A. Bennett Teresa of Watling Street 13: Lord Dolmer was poor – for a lord – and eked out a bare competence by being a guinea-pig in the City.
at guinea pig, n.1
[UK] A. Bennett Teresa of Watling Street 210: The spalpeen doesn’t deserve God’s goodness.
at spalpeen, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Teresa of Watling Street 179: ‘What ho!’ exclaimed the driver [...] ‘Kilburn, eh? What’s the matter with the Tuppenny Toob?’.
at twopenny tube (n.) under twopenny, adj.
[UK] A. Bennett Teresa of Watling Street 222: You have first to prove that I indeed am a power on the Westralia market.
at Westralia, n.
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