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[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Trade’ in Last Poems 93: I’ve done with all that, love, / Believe me. Fact is / I’m thinking of starting / A quiet little biz.
at biz, n.1
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Trade’ in Last Poems 92: Sir Hugh de Broklehurst / Staggered, and cried, ‘Surely that isn’t my / Late blushing bride!’ / Into the tea-shop / Forthwith he strode, / Looked at her closely / And said he’d be blowed.
at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Speed’ in Last Poems 81: Eftsoons he overheard Brown say / To Mrs. Brown, ‘Take heed, / The one big thing in motor-cars / Is speed, my duckie, speed!’.
at ducky, n.
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘White Feather Legion’ in Last Poems 75: Then a health (we must drink it in whispers) / To the flats on the field and the foam, / And also to us, the pacific / Young Gentlemen Slackers at home.
at flat, n.2
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Carlton’ Last Poems 16: By the ‘old girl’ to take your stand, / With the old brolly in your hand.
at old gal, n.
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Let Us Forget’ Last Poems 10: For now the Captains and the Kings / Have served us to the last old tide, / They hint that ‘silver gongs’ and things, / Merely conduce to beastly pride!
at gong, n.3
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘The White Feather Legion’ Last Poems 75: We’ve painted the night clubs vermilion, / We’re hot at the ‘Palace’ and ‘Pav’.
at hot, adj.
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Let Us Forget’ Last Poems 10: We sought no honours and no balm, / On O.B.E.s we were not hot.
at hot, adj.
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Blighty’ in Last Poems 48: Behold the end of all my woes – / The nipper in his Sunday clothes, / The missus blooming like a rose, Blighty!
at nipper, n.3
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Signs of the Times’ in Last Poems 57: ‘We’ gave the Admirals ‘a prog,’ / ‘We’ set the dates and kept the log.
at prog, n.2
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Robert’ Last Poems 89: Before the ‘beaks’ he’ll hale you, / Though you say ‘Sir!’ and ‘Zounds!’ / And, on the mathematics, / They’ll fine you twenty pounds.
at zounds!, excl.
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