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Three Act Tragedy choose

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[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 143: I’m all to pieces.
at all to pieces, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 35: He’s getting old. He’s a back number.
at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 33: A lot of that business is all bunkum.
at bunkum, n.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 33: That’s why I’m really cut up about old Mr Babbington.
at cut up, adj.1
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 136: That dear old dug-out?
at dug-out, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 66: He dodged out of the house while one of the fat-headed constables [...] was taking forty winks.
at fat-headed, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 139: He’s a queer fish.
at queer fish (n.) under fish, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 134: Tollie had a very bad go of influenza last spring.
at go, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 143: Just because they get hold of you when you’ve got the horrors.
at horrors, the, n.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 106: Poor thing, she looked rather out of it.
at out of it, adj.1
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 143: Doctors are interfering devils [...] They monkey about with fellows’ lives.
at monkey, v.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 142: Funny thing is he popped off just the same way as old Strange did.
at pop off, v.1
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 116: We know now that certain of those ideas are definitely washouts.
at wash-out, n.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 33: I had rather a pash on Robin.
at pash, n.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 139: But if you ask me – the firm’s not far off Queer Street.
at Queer Street, n.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 139: He’s a queer fish. Bit of a bad lot, if you ask me.
at queer fish (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 157: Half a sec.
at sec, n.
[UK] A. Christie Three Act Tragedy (1964) 28: You’re a thundering good chap, Charles.
at thundering, adv.
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