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[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me 229: What he dearly loves [...] is those candid snapshots of junior royals taking an ‘arser’ from a horse in a puissance trial.
at arser (n.) under arse, n.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 105: Go that way right across lots [...] Follow the bones when you come to them.
at across lots, phr.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 37: I was an adjutant once, in your actual Guards.
at your actual, adj.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 40: They watched him bully and arsehole-creep his way up the service.
at arsehole crawl, v.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 143: Outside the night was as black as Newgate’s knocker.
at black as Newgate knocker (adj.) under black as..., adj.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 15: Let’s stop playing silly buggers.
at play silly buggers (v.) under bugger, n.1
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 118: Mrs Spon would have catted right there on the Aubusson.
at cat (up), v.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 39: Two members of the cast who’d gone off their chumps.
at off one’s chump under chump, n.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 43: The most urbane cit is, in his inner heart, a yeoman farmer.
at cit, n.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 39: Hockbottle, to everyone’s dismay, drops dead. Dicky ticker.
at dicky, adj.1
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 22: A dinky little Japanese [...] robot camera.
at dinky, adj.1
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 133: I did not hesitate. It was time to put on a bit of dog.
at put on (the) dog (v.) under dog, n.2
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 29: I looked [...] at the tatty Shayers and reach-me-down Koekkoeks.
at reach-me-down, adj.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 140: Well, fuck this for a game of darts.
at fuck that/this for a game of soldiers! (excl.) under fuck, v.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 40: His little eyes dripping tears of hatred and funk.
at funk, n.2
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 24: All I registered was funky panic.
at funky, adj.2
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 27: Jock had put a hotty in my bed.
at hottie, n.1
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 27: We all three [...] tore into an enormous fry-up.
at tear into, v.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 159: Go on, me old mate. Quick. Put the leather in.
at put in the leather (v.) under leather, n.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 43: Then I lowered the boom. ‘You were going to tell me how you knew [etc.].’.
at lower the boom (on) (v.) under lower, v.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 150: It contained [...] a portrait of Madison. The portrait, of course, was on a thousand dollar [sic] bill.
at portrait of Madison, n.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 40: I have had a long day, full of mopery and mayhem.
at mopery, n.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 43: The rich autumnal tints on his swollen moosh.
at mush, n.2
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 53: The Foreign Office told me to go and piss up my kilt.
at go (and) piss up a rope! (excl.) under piss, v.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 38: He is made of sterner stuff than me: your actual boofter often is.
at poofter, n.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 102: He was [...] known to one and all as ‘Shagnasty’.
at shag-nasty (adj.) under shag, v.1
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 29: A [...] baronial wedding present and mobile shagging station.
at shag-wagon (n.) under shag, n.1
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 60: Probably had a glass of sherbert with him once in a while.
at sherbet, n.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 44: Come on, Charlie, let’s stop sodding about.
at sod about (v.) under sod, v.
[UK] K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 20: Ready to buy a bunch of violets from the first drab and toss her a golden sov.
at sov, n.
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