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[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: Ho, it goes a treato!
at treat, a, adv.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 1: The whole shoot of them.
at whole bang shoot, n.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 1: The funny old FILM FUN favourites off to the briny for a spell.
at briny, n.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: They bunked in with the speed of the young policeman after a rabbit pie.
at bunk, v.1
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 1: Ho, what artful young chaps are Ben and Charlie!
at chap, n.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 1: Packed in like sardines, and these nuts have done it on the cush!
at on the cushions under cushion, n.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 1: Everybody cried: ‘No earthly! No room in there!’.
at no earthly under earthly, n.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 1: All the FILM FUN filberts have it! They win!
at filbert, n.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: The cry of the hearty filberts was: ‘We’ve got ’em!’.
at get, v.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: All these jolly little joints who were tied up in the tent started to kick their heels.
at joint, n.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 1: Merrily laughed Ben and Charlie as they legged it off out of the station.
at leg it (v.) under leg, v.1
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: A vastly diverting how-d’ye-do the old outfit presented!
at outfit, n.1
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: All these jolly little joints [...] started to kick their heels, and kick up a row, and do the jump.
at kick up a row (v.) under row, n.1
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: Ben was painting a rum old face on the near side of the tent.
at rum, adj.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: Old Charlie and Ben scooped about – oh well, £17635496176 [...] and bought diamond scooters.
at scoop in (v.) under scoop, v.
[UK] Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: I tell you straight.
at straight, adv.
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 1: ‘Ha, ha!’ he cackled gleefully.
at cackle, v.
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 1: Stan kissed his college chum instead of the charmer.
at charmer, n.
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 1: Stan kissed his college chum instead of the charmer.
at chum, n.
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 24: It’s worked. I’ve diddled him!
at diddle, v.2
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 1: Oh Golly! Help me Olly.
at golly!, excl.
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 24: ‘What-ho!’ he warbled.
at what ho!, excl.
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 1: Although Ollie had arranged to meet her, he could hardly do so, lumbered up with these boxes as he was.
at lumbered, adj.2
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 24: Seeing the paddy he was in, Stan decided it would be as well to skip out of it.
at paddy, n.3
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 1: Ollie came along a little later looking very posh indeed.
at posh, adj.
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 24: ‘Ha, ha!’ he sang out. ‘Put it across you that time, Ollie.’.
at put it across (v.) under put, v.1
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 24: He dashed right past old Stan without rumbling just whereabouts he was.
at rumble, v.2
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 24: I’ll be with you in a brace of shakes.
at two shakes (n.) under shake, n.1
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 24: Seeing the paddy he was in, Stan decided it would be as well to skip out of it.
at skip out (v.) under skip, v.
[UK] Film Fun 8 Sept. 1: He toddled forward and grabbed hold of one or two of those boxes [...] Off he toddled with the damsel.
at toddle, v.
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