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The Man Market choose

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[UK] G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 39: After weary days of ‘chars’ and ‘step-girls’ [...] Alice came on the scene.
at char, n.1
[UK] G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 117: Fancies? Why she’s dotty on him!
at dotty, adj.
[UK] G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 226: Well, well, in small as in large things it was all the same – a ‘let-down’ every time!
at let-down, n.
[UK] G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 118: If Lady Benedden wanted a ‘fancy man’ whom she could marry and entirely keep and pay for, she must look round again.
at fancy man, n.1
[UK] G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 240: No! You have-er-what you call ‘done one on me’ when you go away from that other room.
at do one (v.) under one, n.1
[UK] G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 36: It’s such a mistake to let a certain set of ideas get hold of one – give them a rest!
at give it a rest! (excl.) under rest, n.
[UK] G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 151: All shilling ‘shockers’ are composed of certain ingredients, and doubtless one of the most popular is the hero or heroine who [...] leaves a note saying that he or she has committed suicide – which of course, he or she hasn’t done.
at shilling shocker (n.) under shilling, n.
[UK] G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 32: A paltry place like this, too, where a girl don’t get two veg-es with ’er meat every day!
at veg, n.
[UK] G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 21: Of course we shall – or else the work’us!
at workus, n.
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