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Dud Avocado (1960) 151: To anyone coming in from the outside [...] wouldn’t we have seemed perfectly OK? Absolutely apple-pie American.at apple pie, adj.
Dud Avocado (1960) 151: To anyone coming in from the outside [...] wouldn’t we have seemed perfectly OK? Absolutely apple-pie American. Dud Avocado (1960) 79: We’re going to foul up our leadership like England did, as sure as God made little green apples.at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
Dud Avocado (1960) 125: I returned to the table black and blue, two buttons ripped off my blouse and mad as a wet hen.at ...a wet hen under mad as..., adj.
Dud Avocado (1960) 74: Un véritable bag-of-wind, n’est-ce pas?at bag of wind (n.) under bag, n.1
Dud Avocado (1960) 186: ‘I could hardly be mistaken for an Irishmnan with this nose, could I?’ he said, grinning eagerly and inviting us to study the old Norse beak.at beak, n.2
Dud Avocado (1960) 221: I had some crazy idea of expiating my block-headedness once and for all by ‘going through with it’. It would teach me the lesson of my lifetime.at blockheaded, adj.
Dud Avocado (1960) 123: Some silly political scandal, bounced cheques, and all that sort of thing.at bounce, v.2
Dud Avocado (1960) 208: Our old buddy-buddy the Contessa, that perennial glad rag doll.at buddy-buddy, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 173: ‘Where does he come off giving me the bum’s rush?’ he steamed.at bum’s rush, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 92: Listen you bums, this is no fly-by-night proposition.at fly-by-night, adj.
Dud Avocado (1960) 107: I thought we band of brothers were absolutely the cat’s pyjamas.at cat’s pyjamas, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 183: So then Larry hit the ceiling and said he had to come along.at hit the ceiling, v.
Dud Avocado (1960) 92: You see if you don’t thank us till your dying day even if you don’t get a red sou for it.at red cent, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 104: Zop-zop chewed his cud for a while and then made one of his few utterances.at chew the cud, v.
Dud Avocado (1960) 72: He’d chewed out that sad sack plenty.at chew out, v.
Dud Avocado (1960) 91: We’re not having anything to do with this effete chi-chi they’re trying to unload on us now.at chichi, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 142: Teasing me about [...] my friendship with Lee Harrison (whom he found chi-chi and affected).at chichi, adj.
Dud Avocado (1960) 182: He really looks such a boring little man, doesn’t he, so utterly clueless in those revolting American clothes.at clueless, adj.
Dud Avocado (1960) 255: I mean Japan for a honeymoon. It’s so cool. It’s so chic.at cool, adj.
Dud Avocado (1960) 31: ‘The one who’s shy and polite?’ She nodded. ‘I’ll be darned.’.at I’ll be darned! (excl.) under darn, v.
Dud Avocado (1960) 30: You know all that razzle-dazzle about people being born in Original Sin and all that rot?at razzle-dazzle, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 13: You’re a dead duck now, I told myself.at dead duck, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 41: Was this going to be easier than I thought? Hot dog.at hot dog, adj.1
Dud Avocado (1960) 134: I was fawned upon by the odd Stage-door Johnny.at stage-door johnnie, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 209: Lila was drunk – or, if the doping part was true, she was high.at dope, v.1
Dud Avocado (1960) 171: Stefan [...] is a great charmboat in a twinkling, grey-haired, pink and paunchy way. I just love sexy fat men.at dreamboat, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 122: Faggotry here reaches almost pyrotechnical heights.at faggotry, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 122: He arrived at Rollo’s side flapping his flippers into Rollo’s face.at flipper, n.1
Dud Avocado (1960) 190: I gave him a hot-foot.at hot foot, n.
Dud Avocado (1960) 66: John was a real, earnest, enthusiastic, gee-whiz tail-wagging prig of an American.at gee-whiz, adj.
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