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The Semi-Attached Couple choose

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[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 44: He does not care two straws for Helen.
at not care a straw, v.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 21: How changed Mrs. So-and-so is! I should hardly have known her.
at so-and-so, n.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 151: There is that blockhead, La Grange, to make his ungrammatical remarks on us.
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 285: ‘Blue devils,’ a malady from which I have suffered considerably.
at blue devils, n.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 137: He looks well [...] considering what a bore of a session it has been.
at bore, n.1
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 137: Ah, trust you country gentlemen for croaking, and for finding out what is not to be liked; you are never satisfied.
at croak, v.3
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 155: He thought it an excellent joke, and cut it over again on his own account to the steward’s-room boy.
at cut a joke (v.) under cut, v.1
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 145: ‘Deuced unlucky,’ said La Grange, who was learned in vulgar English expletives.
at deuced, adv.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 97: There is that unfortunate Stuart getting into no end of scrapes, for he has become reckless, and will be thoroughly dished.
at dish, v.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 97: He has become reckless, and will be thoroughly dished.
at dished, adj.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 260: Besides, he is a vulgar dog at best.
at dog, n.2
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 140: Now, my dear Beaufort, do not you join to run down poor Stuart.
at run down, v.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 143: ‘Pho! nonsense,’ he said.
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 137: Nothing can be worse; our friends are in full retreat, and, in fact, the game is up.
at game, n.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 137: I don’t half like your Spanish accounts.
at not half, phr.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 93: Are you still going on with all that old humbug of being glad to see people, and of having something to say to them?
at humbug, n.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 120: I had rather have him for a son-in-law than such a Jerry as Sir William.
at jerry, n.3
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 200: I would advise you to keep him out of political life; it is a complete knock-up to all comfort.
at knock up, v.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 52: I may as well write tonight, though I am completely knocked up.
at knocked up, adj.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 219: Now for it, Luttridge; who flogs the niggers?
at nigger, n.1
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 227: The black lips opened in answer to the interrogation of the polling-clerk, and announced a plumper for Colonel Beaufort.
at plumper, n.2
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 140: I don’t believe that tiresome, poky brother of his.
at pokey, adj.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 234: ‘The scamp,’ as he calls Mr. Lorimer.
at scamp, n.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 212: Yes, there is a screw loose with the clan of Douglas.
at a screw loose under screw, n.1
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 108: She’s shocking uncouth.
at shockingly, adv.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 259: I am very much disappointed in William Montague; he is a regular stick on the stage.
at stick, n.
[UK] E. Eden Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 211: What treasures you all are!
at treasure, n.1
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