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Semi-Detached House (1979) 74: Having made Mrs. Hopkinson fag herself all over the house, to examine the attics, and the kitchen [...] and do all the heavy work of the business, she dismissed her with the blandest apologies.at fag, v.2
Semi-Detached House (1979) 74: Having made Mrs. Hopkinson fag herself all over the house, to examine the attics, and the kitchen [...] and do all the heavy work of the business, she dismissed her with the blandest apologies. Semi-Detached House (1979) 149: Yes, Sir! I can waltz! I can flirt! [...] Pa’ says I’m a romp, Ma’ says I’m a pert, / I say, I am fast! I am fast!at fast, adj.1
Semi-Detached House (1979) 62: I don’t half like those ladies from India.at not half, phr.
Semi-Detached House (1979) 152: Oh, hang the bills, I don’t grudge them a little finery.at hang!, excl.
Semi-Detached House (1979) 132: John will be happy any where, with [...] his old woman and his kids.at kid, n.1
Semi-Detached House (1979) 149: Law, Sir! that is ease! that is ease!at law!, excl.
Semi-Detached House (1979) 36: You don’t say so!at you don’t say under say, v.
Semi-Detached House (1979) 83: As she did not seem clearly to comprehend what refreshment meant [...] he went down stairs to inform the housekeeper’s room that ‘there was a screw loose somewhere’.at a screw loose under screw, n.1
Semi-Detached House (1979) 171: A sharp fellow, and he seems to know what he is about [...] for I never could catch his eye, and I never feel sure of a man who will not look me in the face.at sharp, adj.
Semi-Detached House (1979) 150: Some of the guests, who were what she would have called ‘slow,’ found themselves affected with alarming fits of dejection, accompanied by a distressing tingling in the ears and very burning cheeks.at slow, adj.
Semi-Detached House (1979) 77: I want Chester to go with me, but he is spooney about his wife, and in a fidget to get home.at spoony, adj.
Semi-Detached House (1979) 231: Harcourt is ‘swell’ enough for two.at swell, adj.
Semi-Detached House (1979) 149: We girls love a lark! It’s the men who are stiff. / Why that little Lord John’s such a tease, / If I ask him to dance, he turns off in a tiff, / Law, Sir! that is ease! that is ease!at tease, n.
Semi-Detached House (1979) 149: Why that little Lord John’s such a tease, / If I ask him to dance, he turns off in a tiff.at tiff, n.2
Semi-Detached House (1979) 44: Ah, the Duchess of St. Maur. Quite one of your tip-tops.at tip-top, n.
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