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Pitcher in Paradise choose

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[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 192: I don’t care a damn what anybody says.
at not give a damn, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 130: Lordlummy, Harry [...] You don that a treat!
at treat, a, adv.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 138: Both were feeling absolutely fit — a bit above themselves in fact.
at above oneself, adj.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 109: And now [...] just one more bottle as a Doc and Doris.
at dock-and-doris, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 217: Then the real angling started.
at angle, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 173: He had ‘asked for’ it, and he had got it.
at ask for it (v.) under ask, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 224: There were very few ruling bodies he couldn’t ‘get at’, in the least pleasant sense of the term.
at get at, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 194: A Tommy in a tin hat as I squared with a couple o’ blow told me.
at Tommy Atkins, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 178: Four to one to half a bar!
at half a bar (n.) under bar, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 131: I don’t think I’ve lost anything, but — well, for a mere barney, they did go a bit, didn’t they?
at barney, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 124: His love of a barney was [...] weaker than his strict observance of the laws of meum and tuum.
at barney, n.2
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 128: Those two getabits [...] will get up a dud or barney fight right under your nose.
at barney, adj.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 183: Bob starts chuckin’ the broads out o’ the box, with Charlie takin’ in an’ payin’ out, an’ me barrackin’ up.
at barrack, v.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 251: While the Marters were merely well-to-do, the Amos’s [...] had barrels of it.
at barrel, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 217: The exquisite Smith [...] replied, somewhat dejectedly, ‘Not a bean.’.
at not a bean (n.) under bean, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 268: Talbot was in the happy condition of life [...] known as being ‘full of beans’.
at full of beans (adj.) under beans, n.3
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 121: His humorous account of how Lord Rosebury once pulled the lining itself out of Sir William’s beaver gave rise to much laughter.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 290: The sudden buckling up of a benzine buggy on the sandbox.
at benzine buggy, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 96: Your worthy parent (here Budds raised his billycock reverently).
at billycock, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 94: Well, I’m blowed if I won’t have one cert today.
at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 12: The only person in the world from whom he had the least hope of getting the blunt that day [...] was at Newmarket.
at blunt, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 119: The last time we were out together I lent the beggar five bob!
at bob, n.3
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 55: Damn that feller Perkins [...] I shall hand him the order o’ the boot as soon as I get home.
at order of the boot (n.) under boot, the, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 57: There came along a Newmarket Second October in which the proud Austrian got it where the bottle got the cork.
at where the bottle got the cork under bottle, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 21: One of the little toy bow-wows that women love to pat.
at bow-wow, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 172: It enjoys a doubtful sort of immortality as one of the very hottest stamping grounds of ‘the boys’ [...] many of whom ‘worked’ the meeting.
at boys, the, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 183: Bob starts chuckin’ the broads out o’ the box.
at broads, n.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 43: He ran into four good fellows, brothers of the brush from the other side of the Atlantic.
at brother (of the) brush (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 107: ‘Gregory, my buck!’ cried he.
at buck, n.1
[UK] A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 191: I would put up a gorge for the satisfaction of havin’ a legal reckonin’ with that young bud.
at bud, n.2
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