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[UK] Boys’ Best 20 Oct. 43: Catch it hot from your Head?
at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
[UK] Boys’ Best 20 Oct. 42: He thinks it was done with a bullet from a catty.
at cattie, n.
[UK] Boys’ Best 20 Oct. 42: That’s a dead cert.
at dead cert (n.) under cert, n.
[UK] Boys’ Best 20 Oct. 43: Go away! Clear out! Cut, or I won’t be responsible for what happens.
at cut, v.2
[UK] Boys’ Best 20 Oct. 42: Let’s cut along to the Grammar School.
at cut, v.2
[UK] Boys’ Best 20 Oct. 43: We might ask him if he’s broken anything – besides his jigger, I mean. I guess he won’t ride that again for a week or two.
at jigger, n.5
[UK] Boys’ Best 20 Oct. 45: By jove, there’s the ten o’clock train.
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[UK] Boys’ Best 20 Oct. 45: He was pretty smart doing five miles on shank’s pony.
at shanks’s pony, n.
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