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The Amblers choose

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[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 280: Oh, get along with you, you and your philosophy.
at get along with you!, excl.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 295: I’ve turned up again like a bad penny.
at bad penny (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 39: Go to, you saucy baggage!
at baggage, n.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 295: Wouldn’t the Biddies have you at any price?
at biddy, n.2
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 98: I promise that you shall each of you have a bumping house, and you will go to London with your pockets well lined.
at bumping, adj.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 295: ‘No; bust up,’ explained Roscius cheerfully.
at bust-up, n.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 174: No wonder she puts on airs, the stuck-up cat!
at cat, n.1
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 40: For all your pretty face, my dainty chuck, to this complexion must you come.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 178: Hi, Verney! Stop, you dog!
at dog, n.2
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 302: At present [...] the ‘downs’ were in the ascendant.
at down, n.1
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 72: My sister-in-law wishes to know if what you have written is true criticism, or [...] gush?
at gush, n.2
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 139: It’s like Jimmy’s infernal impudence to introduce his tuppenny-ha’penny gags into my best scene.
at tuppenny halfpenny, adj.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 295: ‘Playing hookey?’ suggested Colley.
at play hooky, v.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 279: She’ll fairly knock ’em.
at knock, v.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 175: And, I say, old lady, we’d better be off.
at old lady, n.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 126: Margaret, you looked a perfect picture.
at picture, n.
[UK] B.L. Farjeon Amblers 285: Ain’t she a ripper?
at ripper, n.1
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