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Horse’s Mouth (1948) 7: She doesn’t give a curse.at not care a curse, v.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 7: She doesn’t give a curse. Horse’s Mouth (1948) 46: All those nicely fitted receding planes amount to damn all but an art-school dodge.at damn-all, n.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 360: ‘Here’s looking to you, Mr Jimson.’ ‘Here’s luck.’ ‘Here’s mud.’.at here’s looking at you!, excl.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 321: Why, you damned old bag, you’ll be so fond of this kid, you’ll thank God for it.at bag, n.1
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 56: Thoroughly bamboozled and floored.at bamboozled (adj.) under bamboozle, v.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 180: Expense is no object. She’s got the beans.at beans, n.1
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 102: There was some gin in it as well as lime-juice and lager, black-strap and wallop.at black strap (n.) under black, adj.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 157: I said, ‘You leave my sister alone, you blankety blank.’.at blankety-blank, phr.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 268: He used to curse the government and say that it was a lot of Boorjuice Blimps starving the inventive genius of the nation.at blimp, n.1
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 32: Hit her with something harder. On the nose. Toko on the Boko.at boko, n.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 108: Look at the floor, you old bone. You’re wet to the skin.at bone, n.5
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 58: Sara [...] got a bonk on the conk.at bonk, n.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 231: Sara [...] said, ‘Bother it,’ and hopped out.at bother!, excl.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 95: It made me want to go bozo with the old rascal.at bozo, adj.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 59: These big bugs are always on the telephone to someone or other, especially millionaires.at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 266: Probably a hanger-on [...] Full of parasitic bitterness and bum-suck spite.at bumsuck, v.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 293: The Rankens went bust for the third or fouth time.at go bust (v.) under bust, adj.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 263: So I sent for the ambulance [...] And we pushed her into the butcher’s cart.at butcher wagon (n.) under butcher, n.1
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 33: The door came open. There was a fat old char with grey hair and a red face.at char, n.1
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 62: ‘Well, how’s the revolution?’ ‘Revolution.’ He spat on the kerb. ‘That chestnut. Are you trying to be funny, or is it a joke?’.at chestnut, n.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 360: ‘Chin, chin.’ ‘Your very good health, sir.’.at chin-chin!, excl.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 10: Ya, mister, how did you like chokey?at chokey, n.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 205: You don’t know mother’s talk. It’s chronic.at chronic, adj.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 23: He painted people with their noses right between their eyes. He started measuring up the human clock at ten years old.at clock, n.1
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 187: ‘Jee-minny Christy,’ I said. ‘What you think I’ve been doing all my life – playing tiddly winks.’.at jiminy cricket!, excl.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 109: Nice bit in the papers if you croak in my bed.at croak, v.2
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 239: It wouldn’t have been wise to let the Professor know how Sara had diddled me.at diddle, v.2
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 18: God has done the dirty on me.at do someone the dirty (v.) under dirty, n.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 145: Then my mother came and gave me such a doing on both ears that I had to sleep on my back.at doing, n.
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 7: I got to thinking how I’d been done.at done, adj.
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