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More Gal’s Gossip 35: When you glance over the ‘Agony Column’ of the evening newspaper.at agony column (n.) under agony, n.
More Gal’s Gossip 35: When you glance over the ‘Agony Column’ of the evening newspaper. More Gal’s Gossip 101: To the girl who cannot ‘put it across’ a jostling opponent, the sales are about as much use as a penny palm fan in Perdition.at as much use as..., phr.
More Gal’s Gossip 74: Cupid is a marvellous magician, as one fully realises when one overhears a callow youth address a still fascinating belle of forty [...] as ‘Baby’.at baby, n.
More Gal’s Gossip 127: There is quite an engaging simplicity about these quaint, out-of-date, human back-numbers.at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
More Gal’s Gossip 42: Fannie was so mortified that great salt tears of indignation stood in her ‘big, brown, bedroom eyes’ — as Byron says.at bedroom eyes, n.
More Gal’s Gossip 179: An objection to the winner [...] on the grounds of bumping, biffing, and boring.at biff, n.1
More Gal’s Gossip 42: She sobbed something about being dash-blanked if she wouldn’t almost sooner have been charged with simple desertion.at blanked, adj.
More Gal’s Gossip 111: It was hopeless to expect even the most bleary diner-out ever to call for ’99’s.at bleary, adj.
More Gal’s Gossip 70: The Heavy-Weight Bouncer, who Worked like a Beaver, but couldn’t Knock a Hole in a Tub of Butter.at bouncer, n.1
More Gal’s Gossip 130: So, without courtship or canoodling of any kind, Esther van Winkel and Solomon Stoomtromp stood with joined hands beneath the canopy of the chuppa.at canoodle, v.
More Gal’s Gossip 81: Any suffering sister, who feels so consciously cheap in the morning that fourpence-three-farthings a gross would [...] be a somewhat excessive price to pay for herself.at cheap, adj.
More Gal’s Gossip 71: All this chewing of the rag provokes Ben, who sets about his man.at chew the rag, v.
More Gal’s Gossip 149: When, in ‘a chickaleary tone,’ as you put it, you greeted your host with, ‘What-ho! This is where I draws the line at goin’ a-bird’s-nestin’!at chickaleary, adj.
More Gal’s Gossip 24: Come off! It is what you complain of when taking equestrian exercise [...] that indicates most plainly the real cause of your trouble.at come off!, excl.
More Gal’s Gossip 154: The Viscount corked himself, socially, by madly marrying one of ‘the Charming Sisters Meadowsweet’ from the halls.at cork, v.1
More Gal’s Gossip 68: To hear Minnie crack on about the men who are ‘dead gone’ on her you really would think she was the only bit of cake in the pantry.at crack on, v.2
More Gal’s Gossip 27: ‘Rosie’s’ friends, [...] who are frequently seen cruising about the street in cabs, and ‘trying’ houses here and there at hazard.at cruise, v.
More Gal’s Gossip 54: This wretched insinuation — that they were merely sans culottes or bank-holidayites on the razzle-dazzle, rather than members of the smart set.at on the razzle dazzle (phr.) under razzle-dazzle, n.
More Gal’s Gossip 118: All this delay and flummery over a paltry threepennyworth of oil [...] came precious near causing me to do in an appointment I had with a very dear old legal friend.at do in, v.
More Gal’s Gossip 86: He was just fuddled enough to make mistakes possible.at fuddled, adj.
More Gal’s Gossip 148: Great Caesar’s Ghost! And they told me he’d gone to Squatawottomy to see a man about an elephant.at great Caesar! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
More Gal’s Gossip 43: She fraternises with such horned cattle as the Monico masher.at horned, adj.
More Gal’s Gossip 91: Why not offer the garment to Mr and Mrs Iky Mo, who daily advertise that they have ‘private customers’ [...] ‘waiting to be supplied’.at ikey-mo, n.
More Gal’s Gossip 176: Joe said he proposed to terminate the proceedings by opening just one keg of nails at the Carlton.at open a keg of nails (v.) under keg, n.
More Gal’s Gossip 45: It is not necessary for the married Jap who has got a ‘lead pipe cinch’ on his erring mate to appeal to any tribunal whatsoever.at lead-pipe cinch (n.) under lead, n.
More Gal’s Gossip 166: A position which enabled him to keep on spitting on the bald head of his wife’s mash.at mash, n.1
More Gal’s Gossip 74: I told you in my last how she gave the athletic stockbroker at Hove the mitten.at give someone the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
More Gal’s Gossip 178: Charlie [...] has declared his intention of following whichever mob gets Mr Suffolk-Bassoon’s delightful little orchestra.at mob, n.2
More Gal’s Gossip 83: Nanty! Don’t put it about, but it’s a pinch — Honeymoon!at nanty!, excl.
More Gal’s Gossip 147: Medicine-man or no medicine-man, what’s the matter with handing him one?at give someone one (v.) under one, n.1
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