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The Otterbury Incident choose

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[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 89: Johnny Sharp stopped me and said, ‘Brought home the bacon?’.
at bring home the bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 66: In fact he’s balmy. But quite harmless.
at balmy, adj.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 183: They decided to do some detection off their own bat.
at off one’s own bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 167: ‘Gaw blank my blank eyes! It’s a crowd of blank blank kids!’ – the blanks stand for unsavoury language with which the censor would not allow me to sully my page.
at blank, adj.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 165: They were to go on blazing away, while he himself got in again by the skylight.
at blaze away (v.) under blaze, v.2
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 34: ‘Look yurr,’ he said, ‘was it by any chance you little blighters who broke into my yard this morning?’.
at blighter, n.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 15: I’d better try to describe this pair of blisters.
at blister, n.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 83: The Officers of the Court then had to restrain Nick from knocking the Prune’s block off.
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 66: Whether it comes from reading all his own stock of Bloods, or what, I don’t know. But he’s got a delusion that he’s Sherlock Holmes.
at blood, n.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 121: What the blue blazes is all this?
at what the blue blazes! (excl.) under blue, adj.5
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 50: Once you let a woman into a thing, they always wanted to boss it.
at boss, v.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 94: Oh boy, oh boy, did we go up in the air!
at oh boy!, excl.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 49: And the final touch was a brainwave from Peter Butts.
at brainwave (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 34: Ted had gone a bit pale [...] with that great bruiser glaring down at him.
at bruiser, n.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 123: If you were a natural crook like Sharp you’d bump off your grandmother for 6d.
at bump (off), v.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 23: The Prune buzzed a half-brick at Ted. I should have said we’d made a strict rule against throwing stones during our battles.
at buzz, v.3
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 33: We were just about to buzz, when the yard door opened again.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 136: ‘Ow, cheese it,’ interrupted the Wart.
at cheese it!, excl.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 58: Ted was against this. He said it was too like chizzing.
at chiz, v.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 48: Me sing in the streets? Come off it, Ted!
at come off it! (excl.) under come off, v.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 63: The cheap-jack fellow’s voice conked out altogether, so startled was he by this intrusion.
at conk (out), v.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 140: And just so that you can cool your silly little heads for a bit, I’m going to lock the door at the bottom of the stairs when I go out.
at cool, v.2
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 167: ‘Stick ’em up, the lot of you!’ he said. ‘It’s a cop!’.
at cop, n.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 112: A simple, ordinary coin of the realm, vulgarly known as half a crack or a demi-dollar.
at crack, n.5
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 35: Burglars do often make a reconnaissance before they actually crack a crib.
at crack a crib (v.) under crib, n.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 153: ‘Crikey! The Black Market!’ exclaimed Ted.
at crikey!, excl.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 60: ‘Well, I’ll be damned!’ exclaimed Rickie.
at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 65: Dash it all, we got that bob for you.
at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 114: ‘Kindly do me the favour of dropping down dead,’ Toppy replied.
at drop dead!, excl.
[UK] C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 116: ‘We’ll put the Prune to the question’ [...] ‘Yeah. Third-degree him,’ said Nick.
at third degree, v.
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