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[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 216: The proprietors of les Grands Magasins do not cordially endorse the system of sending out their stock ‘on appro’.
at on appro (adv.) under appro, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 99: None know definitely who ‘put her away’.
at put away, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 189: She was imprisoned [...] for applying the term ‘a nasty, insulting old barn-choote’ to a brigadier-general.
at banchoot, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 34: She would probably [...] have tolled the bell on the whole proceeding.
at toll the bell on (v.) under bell, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 91: Hilda had looked forward to a very big week.
at big, adj.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 84: The young Earl would probably have married the bird.
at bird, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 169: The Intimidating Israelite [...] won his title with a pack of cards while keeping a Leytonstone livery stable tidy at eighteen bits per week.
at bit, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 159: I think of a little bit of stuff that I left behind in Nagasaki.
at bit of stuff, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 94: What the blazes attracts a chap like you to such a peep-show as this?
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 49: I have listened to his breezy bleat so often that I know his yarn by heart.
at bleat, n.
[UK] A/ Binstead Mop Fair 136: ‘You follow me, George?’ ‘Abso-pleadin’-lutely, ’Arry.’.
at bleeding, adj.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 85: Connie [...] fairly electrified the young bloods.
at blood, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 35: Her ‘boy’ was a bit of a blossom in some matters.
at blossom, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 191: It’s all very well for these here Japs to blow about dispensin’ justice.
at blow, v.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 49: Odious P.C. 797 has arrived from the clouds and blue-pencilled the show.
at blue-pencil, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 70: Finding his wife giving him some anti-drink stuff in his coffee at brekker.
at brekker, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 69: Twee give Twee-est deevie ickle dinnie, and Twee-est buck up.
at buck up, v.2
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 147: You omit [...] the Turf alias of the bug-eyed slanderer.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 162: An athletic young stranger [...] gave hubby one on the sub-maxillary gland and two on the bugle.
at bugle, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 138: I seemed to get whacked every time as I went the bundle.
at go the bundle (v.) under bundle, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 31: A suspicious woman who has lost her temper is the prize bunk of the universe.
at bunk, n.2
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 118: Remember, headachey sickness an’ all that caper!
at caper, n.2
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 136: A figure that didn’t compel you to give the lady the frozen face [...] unless things went extra kerteever.
at catever, adj.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 122: Who it was that, for sheer sport’s sake had kept chi-iking ‘Louder!’ during the [...] local political meeting in ’79.
at chi-ike, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 85: I have volunteered to stake them to three little Broad Court chorus chicks.
at chick, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 215: By Christmas! how it did throb, throb, throb!
at Christmas!, excl.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 59: A rustic clod of a railway porter.
at clod, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 153: What do you say to a sherry and curacoa at the Cri.
at Cri, the, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 4: Cleopatra, Marc Antony’s Alexandrian daisy.
at daisy, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Mop Fair 79: It’s very sweet of you old dear.
at old dear, n.
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