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[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 91: I’m hoping everything will be in apple-pie order for their visit.
at apple-pie order, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 7: A fat chance we’ve got of going fishing.
at fat chance, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 151: Cor! You didn’t half give me a proper old chase.
at cor!, excl.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 136: You diddled me out of my half-sovereign.
at diddle, v.2
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 23: You know, falling leaves and autumn tints and all that sort of flannel.
at flannel, n.2
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 8: There’d be a bit of a hoo-hah if you got caught doing it.
at hooha, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 50: Coo! Mouldy old confidence trick!
at mouldy, adj.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 45: You can’t go around ticking Matrons off for cheek.
at tick off, v.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 123: It’s those mouldy oiks, Binns and Blotwell.
at oik, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 78: I think it’s an absolute swizzle.
at swiz, n.2
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 122: What fantastic tarradiddles they concocted to impress their friends!
at taradiddle, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 7: Hang on, while I process the data in my think-tank.
at think-tank (n.) under think, v.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Speaking of Jennings (1989) 45: They’re off their trolleys! I wouldn’t have touched the mouldy old toadstools with a drain-rod.
at off one’s trolley (adj.) under trolley, n.
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