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[UK] Financial Times 13 Apr. 13/3: If the BSC or the bigger firms in the private sector felt the draught and turned their attention to smaller orders, the lesser firms could suffer badly to the point of extinction .
at feel the draught (v.) under feel, v.
[UK] Financial Times 25 Aug. 8/2: For all the ballyhoo, 2012’s organisers may benefit from the Chinese example.
at ballyhoo, n.
[UK] Financial Times (L) 4 Nov. 4: Born in rural Georgia, his family moved north in 1941. ‘They came here to escape Jim Crow, that sharecropper, hard-scrabble existence.’.
at Jim Crow, n.
[UK] Financial Times 18 Dec. 4/5: Mr Khan hands over his mobile again so another business partner can tell Mr Hines he plans to ‘come down and punch your effing lights out’.
at effing, adj.
[UK] Financial Times 25 Aug. 2/6: I wore a kilt every day when I went to school. [...] It was a pain because you used to be called a Jessie.
at jessie, n.1
[UK] Financial Times 18 Dec. 4/5: Mr Khan hands over his mobile again so another business partner can tell Mr Hines he plans to ‘come down and punch your effing lights out’.
at light, n.
[UK] Financial Times 25 Aug. 12/2: So we are still slogging it out [...] but the airline is stonewalling.
at slog it out (v.) under slog, v.
[UK] Financial Times Weekend Mag. 10–11 Jan. 44/1: All the touring bikes share a new, stiffer frame, and all have anti-lock braking – which saved my bacon when I saw, very late, a speed bump.
at save someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] Financial Times Weekend Mag. 10–11 Jan. 41/1: The buzz gets round the birds remarkably quickly that there’s a new place to stop.
at buzz, n.
[UK] Financial Times Weekend Mag. 10–11 Jan. 41/3: They are hard to hit – small and with a fast, weaving flight. You need to be a dead-eye Dick and then some.
at deadeye, adj.
[UK] Financial Times Weekend Mag. 10/11Jan. 42/3: I gunned the Harley-Davidson into the long sweeping turns of the hills.
at gun, v.3
[UK] Financial Times Weekend Mag. 10–11 Jan. 41/1: I don’t want to get heavy about this but what is fun for dogs and their owners can be life or death for wild creatures.
at heavy, adj.
[UK] Financial Times Weekend Mag. 10–11 Jan. 33/1: The officers’ perceived lack of authority in certain critical situations has led some [...] to deride them as ‘plastic police’.
at plastic, adj.
[UK] Financial Times Weekend Mag. 10–11 Jan. 44/3: Donkin shoots the breeze with brewer and sailor Jonathan Adnams.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under shoot, v.
[UK] Financial Times Weekend Mag. 30 Apr. 23/2: They very phrase ‘the council’ conjures up a range of horrors: bumbling bureaucracy, tin-pot tyrants, ’elf n’ safety gone mad.
at tin-pot, adj.
[UK] Financial Times Mag. 6 July 8/4: Wow, you don’t look too bad [...] you’re one of those old birds.
at old bird, n.
[UK] Financial Times Mag. 6 July 13/2: Cameron has come up with a new plan to bung some bunce at those joined in holy matrimony.
at bung, v.1
[UK] Financial Times Mag. 6 July 37/1: This re-appropriation of honest grub [i.e. beefburgers]. They call it ‘dude food’ or ‘dirty grub’.
at grub, n.2
[UK] Financial Times ‘How to Spend It’ 1 June 🌐 The carabiner clips on the business bags (price on request) are a ‘bit Nellie’ (Blahnik for overly feminine and fussy).
at nellie, adj.
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