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Captain Bulldog Drummond choose

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[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 104: Following my suggestion about the wine [...] and vituperating like bingo, I shouldn’t wonder!
at like bingo (adv.) under bingo!, excl.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 195: Rally round, old bird.
at old bird, n.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 21: Do you know what they told me, blast ’em?
at blast, v.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 239: I did nothing — except make a bloomer.
at bloomer, n.2
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 41: We’re all in the same boat now.
at row in the (same) boat (v.) under boat, n.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 212: Surely this bonehead would understand that argument?
at bonehead, n.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 144: They’re marvellous most of the time, but this was rather a boob.
at boob, n.2
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 102: You can finish the bubbly.
at bubbly, n.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 71: ‘Bung-ho!’ [...] ‘Here,’ said Harlow solemnly, ‘is to the skin off your nose, if that is necessary.’.
at bung ho!, excl.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 36: Tracing telephone calls was always a chancy business.
at chancy, adj.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 35: A man I failed to arrest for blackmail because his victim was too chicken-livered to take the stand.
at chicken-livered, adj.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 206: ‘Chrisopher Columbus!’ said Hugh Drummond.
at Christopher Columbus!, excl.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 254: Wotcher, cocky!
at cocky, n.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 55: Crack him over his nut, that may bring him to his senses.
at crack, v.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 156: Where the devil was Hugh Drummond?
at where the devil...?, phr.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 45: I’d put the dope on extra thick [...] but practically as soon as the cloth hit his face he went under.
at dope, n.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 175: I dotted him one, extremely hard, with his own blunt instrument — in the shape of his own poker.
at dot, v.
[UK] G. Fairlie Captain Bulldog Drummond 146: Drat it, thought Drummond, it might have come just a few minutes earlier.
at drat, v.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 82: I must be off, boys: I’ve promised to feed a fairy and take her off to some charity do.
at fairy, n.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 104: We’ve probably got to go and wave a beautiful fairy story to the blondes.
at fairy-story (n.) under fairy, n.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 89: I’ve always heard you were a fast worker, Captain Drummond [...] But really!
at fast worker (n.) under fast, adj.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 113: I just mentioned the matter to them [...] it’s a matter of form, these days.
at form, n.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 82: In one breath [...] you refer to her as a fairy, thus raising me hopes, and in the next you call her an old girl, thus dashing them to the ground.
at old gal, n.
[UK] G. Fairlie Captain Bulldog Drummond 214: Golly — the whole bag with one shot!
at golly!, excl.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 33: It’s all right for you [...] you’ve been in harness all the war.
at in harness under harness, n.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 129: I’m ready to bet that she’ll give us the hell of a lot of trouble now.
at hell of a, a under hell, n.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 46: Drummond, I hope, will lead us back to something hot.
at hot, adj.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 10: We have fellows working wherever they can inconvenience the blasted Huns.
at Hun, n.
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 174: Not a very pleasant johnny, I’m forced to gather.
at johnny, n.1
[UK] G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 186: By jove, was this the germ of an idea?
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
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