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Alive and Merry choose

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[UK] C. Dance Alive and Merry I i: day: And if you don’t beat a person for impudence, what would you beat him for? bella: Oh, go along with you!
at get along with you!, excl.
[UK] C. Dance Alive and Merry I i: Oh, fiddlededee the mourning!
at fiddledeedee!, excl.
[UK] C. Dance Alive and Merry II i: Have you never had a man to your back that you must try to filch other people’s?
at filch, v.1
[UK] C. Dance Alive and Merry I ii: sharp: I don’t believe you’re Mr. Perkins at all. I can prove that he’s dead. per.: Come, that’s a good one.
at good one, n.
[UK] C. Dance Alive and Merry I i: Couldn’t you wait a bit till she’s hopped off, and then you and I could marry.
at hop off, v.1
[UK] C. Dance Alive and Merry I iii: He was rather a rum old jockey, wasn’t he?
at jockey, n.2
[UK] C. Dance Alive and Merry II iii: And here comes my missus; if she catches me with you, I shall nap it.
at nap it (v.) under nap, v.1
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