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[UK] Daily Express 2 Sept. 3/1: We were all beat up after four days of the hardest soldiering you ever dreamt of.
at beat-up, adj.
[UK] Daily Express 11 Oct. 3/4: One day his sister died sudden. Up he comes to ask for fourteen days’ leave [...] ‘to mourn over the body [...] according to the Jewish faith’ [...] The padre wired to a rabbi [...] it was all flannel [...] just flannel from beginning to end.
at flannel, n.2
[UK] Daily Express 5 Mar. 11/6: Bootleg [i.e. smuggled] baby.
at bootleg, adj.
[UK] Daily Express 4 Dec. 10/3: A ‘dumb’ is a stupid person, and if he’s dumb enough he’ll probably drive you ‘cuckoo’ or crazy.
at dumb, n.
[UK] Daily Express 20 July 17/5: Greycing [...] tonight’s greyhound racing meetings .
at gracing, n.
[UK] Daily Express 4 Dec. 10/3: ‘Hurrah boys’ are college students .
at hurrah boys (n.) under hurrah, n.
[UK] Daily Express 11 Oct. 2/7: What is Marijuana? [...] A deadly Mexican drug, more familiarly known as ‘Mary Jane’, which produces wild hilarity when either smoked or eaten.
at mary jane, n.2
[UK] Daily Express 12 Dec. 10/5: It is not really bad wine... It is an acquired taste, but it is better than the ‘snake-bite’ contraband whisky or the synthetic gin [OED].
at snakebite, n.
[UK] Daily Express 21 Sept. 9/3: The magnates who had contracted to buy the picture indulged in fits of doubt concerning its prospects as a box-office ‘smash’ [DA].
at smash, n.1
[UK] Daily Express 15 Oct. 19/4: As soon as you become to feel a bit of a cheese you become a bad magistrate [OED].
at big cheese, n.
[UK] Daily Express 20 May 49: In-your-face-aggro (’I’m selling myself. So what?’ she once countered, when asked why she posed naked).
at aggro, n.
[UK] Daily Express 20 May 21: He had quite a few beers under his belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[UK] Daily Express 20 May 23: Typically durr-brained twenty-somethings.
at dur-brained, adj.
[UK] Daily Express 20 May 105: Randi is getting a raw deal.
at raw deal (n.) under raw, adj.
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