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[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 94: I bet Old Wilkie’s in a frantic bate.
at bait, n.2
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 18: And run slap-bang-wallop into a master outside the village stores!
at slap-bang, adv.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 5: Sometimes the lesson went like a bomb.
at like a bomb (adv.) under bomb, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 145: She may think the school telephone has been bugged.
at bug, v.4
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 46: You’ve made a right royal carve-up and no mistake.
at carve-up, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 45: Not so hot as you’ll catch it when Pinky Parkinson finds out.
at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 173: I was hoping you’d agree to put a chunk in the mag.
at chunk, n.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 77: Cor! What a mess! That’s a right creamer, if ever I saw one.
at creamer, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 34: I can’t go myself or some rotten oik will pinch my seat.
at oik, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 97: I’ve heard some pretty ropey wheezes in my time, but that one takes the parchment diploma.
at ropey, adj.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 32: The coach will be here in a sec.
at sec, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 130: I’ll give my think-tank a stir and see what comes to the top.
at think-tank (n.) under think, v.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 33: You can’t do that! If you go waltzing off and leave it —.
at waltz, v.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Trust Jennings (1989) 131: We could try out our famous wheeze now.
at wheeze, n.
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