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[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 155: She tried in various ways to earn her own living [...] but, bless you, the poor girl couldn’t get bread and butter at any of them.
at bread and butter, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 149: For the wind was very gusty / And the course was beastly dusty.
at beastly, adv.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 15: He joyfully fell in with her suggestion to step inside and take a ‘binder’.
at binder, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 37: Crushed to death by blacklegs against the corner of a tramcar [...] during the first day of the Strike.
at blackleg, n.2
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 136: The Biffins cad said the meter was ‘all wrong to blazes’.
at all to blazes (adj.) under blazes, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 148: He spoke of one favour — well I recollect — / Oh, would I ‘pour a drink into his boiler,’ / He was so dry.
at boiler, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 71: She proceeded to invest the thirteenth nursery-maid of the season with the ancient order and insignia of the boot.
at order of the boot (n.) under boot, the, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 147: And then we went, and the money we spent / In boozing at the Criterion.
at booze, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 40: It is wicked, no doubt, for me [...] to find fault with the weather, but I freely confess that the present sample is a trifle too brass-monkey.
at brass monkey, adj.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 97: When I first heard [...] that Laodamia had won, I thought I should go fairly off my burner for very joy!
at go off one’s burner (v.) under burner, n.2
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 172: ‘O Irené, Irené, I cannot live without you!’ ‘You cannot live with me, that’s a dead cert,’ the heartless creature wrote back.
at dead cert (n.) under cert, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 103: What is coming over our young men of the middle class — the sort that turn counter-jumpers in their giddy youth?
at counter-jumper, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 115: Summoning Dutch courage to her aid by swallowing a whole liqueur glass of Mother Somebody’s Stomach Bitters.
at Dutch courage, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 39: I am greatly afraid she is going to ‘chuck in her knife and fork,’ as Charlie says.
at lay down one’s knife and fork (v.) under lay down, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 120: I make it a rule to keep a duck of a transparent crêpe de chine night gown [...] on a chair by my bedside.
at duck, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 93: He has, to use his own words, ‘got a bookmaker on the bow’.
at on the elbow under elbow, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 101: Mrs Terence Wortonhunt, whose shockingly fast husband ran away with Letty Bunn from the Gaiety.
at fast, adj.1
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 57: [He] hadn’t been in the house two hours before he was thumping the butler in his own pantry [...] because he wouldn’t ‘find the lady’.
at find the lady, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 86: He is reduced to frogging out sermons at half-a-guinea a pair for old comrades who were more fortunate.
at frog, v.1
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 57: The very next day the creature ‘gamdiddled’ (that was the coachman’s word) the stableman out of his corn money.
at gamdiddle, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 25: Seniores priores, as the ploughed young ’un from Oxford said, when his irate parent told him to go to Hades.
at Hades, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 23: Her father [...] might have picked up the art of trading in Middlesex Street itself; he was a real bit of hard shell!
at hard-shell, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 146: He stood at the bar with a big cigar, / We asked him what he would have.
at what will you have?, phr.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 45: Smoly Hoke! thinks I —.
at holy smoke!, excl.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 166: Fanny Bobitwell’s ‘elderly stick-in-the-mud,’ as she invariably calls her hubby.
at stick-in-the-mud, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 164: If you wish to make me feel like a stray cat in a strange garret, rope me into a church!
at rope in, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 17: He dragged the half-jimmy — his little ewe-lamb! — out of his jeans.
at in(to) one’s jeans under jeans, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 27: I fancy I can hear you reply ‘Oh, jigger it!’ as a sweet girl friend of mine, who is too lady-like to swear [...] remarked.
at jigger!, excl.
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 156: Minnie [...] must have looked prettily in her natty get-up, poising her electro-plated jimmy.
at jimmy, n.2
[UK] A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 17: He dragged the half-jimmy — his little ewe-lamb! — out of his jeans.
at jimmy, n.1
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