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[UK] J.R. Couper Mixed Humanity 341: If you don’t keep your house [...] in apple-pie order – you know the consequences.
at apple-pie order, n.
[UK] J.R. Couper Mixed Humanity 26: As the dice were being thrown, he kept exclaiming, in a meaningless way, ‘O bli’ me! O bli’ me!’.
at blimey!, excl.
[UK] J.R. Couper Mixed Humanity 344: You had better boss up. Remember that your husband is watching you.
at boss up, v.
[UK] J.R. Couper Mixed Humanity 49: At ‘knock-off time’ Senior and his gang of Kaffirs went to receive their week’s wages.
at knock-off, n.
[UK] J.R. Couper Mixed Humanity 265: They believed dealings with her after the death of Morris would bring them ‘shlemozel’.
at shemozzle, n.
[UK] J.R. Couper Mixed Humanity 77: I am too slim for them, believe me.
at slim, adj.
[UK] J.R. Couper Mixed Humanity 4: A wide-awake is called in South Africa a smasher.
at smasher, n.3
[UK] J.R. Couper Mixed Humanity 8: He held out the inducement of a new ‘tom’ being at this establishment – meaning a new barmaid.
at tom, n.3
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