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My Time, And What I've Done With It choose

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[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 95: He’s an elegant Baa-lamb, and you’ll meet him at dinner.
at baa-lamb, n.1
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 376: They said he was a regular bad lot, and obliged to cut up and run.
at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 379: I wouldn’t have him back; no siree, not on no account!
at no siree (bob)!, excl.
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 377: ‘Oho!’ laughed Rowdie, ‘Here’s a pretty blessed boil over!’.
at boilover (n.) under boil, v.
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 8: A chirrupy stereotyped smile, on his otherwise peculiarly inexpressive lips.
at chirrupy, adj.
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 183: One boy took the ‘crib’, and read from it slowly.
at crib, n.3
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 165: ‘Well’, he said squeakily, ‘how-de-do?’.
at howdy do, phr.
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 103: The Biffords, whose names [...] were ‘Fatty’ and ‘Puggy’.
at fatty, n.1
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 379: The Doctor’s a sly old fox [...] and all he wants is some more tin.
at fox, n.1
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 103: ‘Oh, humbug!’ cried Dick.
at humbug!, excl.
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 376: ‘Lor!’ replied Marmy, ‘he knows everything that goes on here.’.
at lor!, excl.
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 377: ‘Rayther so!’ answered Rowdie, who preferred any slang to the pronunciation [...] of respectable society.
at rather!, excl.
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 379: He thinks you’ll soft-sawder the others, that they’ll say ‘all serene,’ and have the old boy back.
at soft sawder, v.
[UK] F.C. Burnand My Time 172: I saw it [a cap] sky’d up into the air, when, in its line of descent [...] it comfortably fell and settles itself, in rakish fashion over the crown of the head of the Royal Founder’s statue.
at sky, v.
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