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[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 88: She mayn’t give a curse whether I see her or not.
at not care a curse, v.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 38: She always seems a bit insipid to me [...] strictly the bread-and-butter Miss.
at bread-and-butter, adj.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 105: You’re the sort of man I like, big and beefy.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 77: It seems to be a huge reservoir of silence into which all one’s words take belly-flops.
at bellyflop, n.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 114: Aren’t you doing a bit for her?
at do a bit (v.) under bit, n.1
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 80: I watched then with tenderness [...] without the least trace of, as Charles used to put it, the bog-eyed hogger.
at bog-eyed (adj.) under bog, n.3
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 165: Everything was tickety-boo again and I was so happy that I moved in a trance.
at tickety-boo, adj.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 118: You’ve used the words often enough with your boozy friends.
at boozy, adj.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 90: And you’re not shy, you’re brass-faced, in fact.
at brass-face (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 210: Brown chuckled. ‘You should have seen to it that your parents had more brass. I didn’t make the world.’.
at brass, n.1
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 177: I had the buzz that Hoylake’s reorganizing.
at buzz, n.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 162: We noncoms used to say got the chopper. Going for a Burton was journalist’s talk.
at get the chop (v.) under chop, n.1
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 52: I thought you were coming the Lady of the Mansion over me, that’s all.
at come over, v.2
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 133: ‘I’m very old. I’m twenty-five. A genuine DOM.’ ‘What’s a DOM?’ [...] ‘Dirty Old Man.’.
at d.o.m., n.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 17: I used to say that he looked like a parson on the razzle.
at on the razzle dazzle (phr.) under razzle-dazzle, n.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 36: Oh hell and death, I’m late!
at death!, excl.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 133: ‘What’s a DOM?’ [...] ‘Dirty Old Man.’.
at dirty old man, n.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 102: We’ll have a proper do.
at do, n.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 198: Not serious enough for the doctors to give her the dope necessary to keep away the pain.
at dope, n.1
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 110: It’s quite unmistakeable, that look – a sort of dopy joyfulness.
at dopey, adj.2
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 89: Your uncle’s having a lay-down.
at lay-down, n.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 104: Honestly, ducks, they can’t understand the simplest thing.
at ducks, n.1
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 86: You slant-eyed Mongolian pig.
at slant-eyed, adj.
[UK] J. Braine Room at Top 46: I managed to flannel him into the belief that I approved of his particular brand of efficiency.
at flannel, v.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 88: Do what Uncle Charles advises, and all will be gas and gaiters.
at all (is) gas and gaiters under gas, n.1
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 189: Oh my [...] Almost worth ten years hard, isn’t she?
at hard, n.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 80: I watched them with tenderness [...] without the least trace of, as Charles used to put it, the bog-eyed hogger.
at hogger, n.1
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 204: Thought you were a red-hot Labour man.
at red-hot, adj.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 182: I love you [...] I’m not interested in little girls. Particularly not in jail-bait like that one.
at jailbait, n.
[UK] J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 32: Don’t introduce him to Alice [...] She’s hunting for fresh meat.
at meat, n.
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