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[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 12: Her Ladyship butts in and yells, / ‘The cat is right! That’s not the bells!’.
at butt in, v.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 17: There came a funny feeling / Of something crawling up my thigh! / I nearly hit the ceiling.
at hit the ceiling, v.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 74: The djinn was stunned. He could not speak. / At last he said, ‘You’ve got some cheek!’.
at cheek, n.2
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 34: And so a dozen brainy men / Met secretly inside a den / To formulate a subtle plot / To polish off this royal clot.
at clot, n.1
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 25: ‘I’m cooked!’ the Hare yelled out. ‘I’m done!’.
at cooked, adj.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 15: The cat shouts, ‘Dick, do not succumb / To blandishments from that old crumb!’.
at crum, n.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 25: Would you, for instance, give your shirt / To know who’s going to do you dirt?
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 36: The brainy men all cried, ‘Egad! / Oh, Majesty, you lucky lad!’.
at egad!, excl.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 54: Hey diddle diddle / We’re all on the fiddle.
at on the fiddle under fiddle, n.3
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 23: The Rat said, ‘Ho! I do believe / There’s something fishy up your sleeve.’.
at fishy, adj.2
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 17: A mouse my foot! It was a HAND!
at my foot!, excl.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 14: Shouting, ‘Gadzooks! Hooray! There passes / One member of the upper-classes!’.
at gadzooks! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 53: And Ali Baba thought, By gosh, / I’m awfully glad that I’m not posh.
at by gosh! (excl.) under gosh!, excl.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 71: Oh gosh, all right then, off we go!
at gosh!, excl.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 17: A mouse my foot! It was a HAND! / Great Scott! It was the vicar’s!
at great Scott! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 24: By gum, I never would have guessed.
at by gum! (excl.) under gum, n.2
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 39: A brazen wench cried, ‘Oh my hat!’.
at my hat!, excl.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 41: The little tree looked down at me / And whispered, ‘Nuts to you’.
at nuts to, phr.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 34: And so a dozen brainy men / Met secretly inside a den / To formulate a subtle plot / To polish off this royal clot.
at polish off, v.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 57: Now look, if we could rub them out, / There’d be more beans and sauerkraut / And stuff for you and me to eat.
at rub out, v.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 35: I want ski-trousers and a jacket! / I don’t care if it costs a packet!
at packet, n.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 13: These females from the upper-classes / Spend their lives in making passes.
at make a pass (v.) under pass, n.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 52: They’re all completely round the bend.
at round the bend (adj.) under round the..., phr.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 15: Her ladyship leaps high with joy / And cries, ‘Well done, my scrumptious boy!’.
at scrumptious, adj.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 58: He whispers softly, ‘Listen, Sis, / I don’t much like the smell of this.’.
at sis, n.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 68: A snazzy scarlet racing-car.
at snazzy, adj.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 76: His nails, his teeth, his bones, his skin / Were being squished and squashed so thin.
at squish, v.
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 53: Like this lot here. They’re all half-stewed! / They’re all completely round the bend!
at stewed, adj.1
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 70: So finally, like all great thinkers / Who also happen to be stinkers.
at stinker, n.1
[UK] R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 72: I think you might enjoy a fling / With some curvaceous little thing.
at thing, n.
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