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[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 549: As soon as I’ve got off my benjamin.
at benjamin, n.1
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 350: They had done nothing! Why were they carpeted?
at carpet, v.
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 214: He fancied it proper to put on his nose before he alighted from the cab. ‘Oh! oh! there’s a conk! there’s a smeller! Oh! oh!’ exclaimed about fifty voices in chorus.
at conk, n.1
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 5: Concocting a criticism on the evening’s performance which certainly was [...] ‘a regular flamer’ .
at flamer, n.1
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 353: Then of course you mean to go the whole quadruped?
at go the whole animal (v.) under go the whole..., v.
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 247: As another opposition buss [sic] passed as he retired, he gave it as his opinion, that in this, his extremity, it was enough to drive a man to make a hole in the water.
at make a hole in the water (v.) under hole, n.1
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 95: No man was ever able to write his own life complete. He’s certain to go off the hooks before he has finished it.
at off the hooks under hook, n.1
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 357: ‘Well done old pigswig!’ cried Horace, giving the Doctor a patronising pat on the shoulder.
at pigtail, n.
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 515: They were standing at a ‘prick in the garter’ table, at which a gentleman had a long piece of list, which he wound round and offered any money that no man could prick in the middle.
at prick the garter (n.) under prick, v.2
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 214: He fancied it proper to put on his nose before he alighted from the cab. ‘Oh! oh! there’s a conk! there’s a smeller! Oh! oh!’ exclaimed about fifty voices in chorus.
at smeller, n.
[UK] H. Cockton Valentine Vox 35: ‘Waiter!’ shouted Valentine [...] when the knight of the napkin [...] approached the fire.
at ...the napkin under knight of the..., n.
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