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[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 146: But if you think that either of those men care a curse for you, you’re damned well mistaken.
at not care a curse, v.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 99: Just tell your family, since you’re so above-board, what time you came home last night.
at above board, adj.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 21: We want to hear how he carved up the Germans.
at carve up, v.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 22: He [...] then helped himself liberally to chow-chow.
at chow-chow, n.1
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 119: [of a horse] Isn’t he a clinker?
at clinker, n.2
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 55: He’ll soon find out he can’t be high cockolorum here.
at high cockalorum, n.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 61: ‘Mrs. Clinch doesn’t like it.’ ‘Mrs. Clinch be damned.’.
at damn, v.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 72: You did hurt it after all. It’s aching like the dickens.
at dickens, the, phr.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 72: It’s out, you little duffer! I pulled it.
at duffer, n.2
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 122: At the moment I think you’re rather a queer egg.
at egg, n.2
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 228: ‘Gad!’ he exclaimed, ‘that girl can ride!’.
at gad!, excl.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 96: ‘I can’t imagine you swearing in this outfit.’ ‘The hell you cant!’ she exclaimed, incredulously.
at hell, the, phr.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 116: ‘So you’ve got on to the racket too!’ ‘What racket?’ ‘That she doesn’t open her door to others when she has her favourite visitor inside.’.
at onto, adj.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 20: It was annoying to see heedless Piers devouring those juicy bits [...] just north of the Pope’s nose.
at pope’s nose (n.) under pope, n.
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 60: She was a silly.
at silly, n.1
[Can] M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 51: He’s like my father, I’m sorry to say [...] he’d skin a flea for its hide and tallow.
at skin a louse (v.) under skin, v.1
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