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Pig and Pepper choose

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[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 207: Damn it, old man, when I arrived here three months ago without a bean [...] you backed me up.
at bean, n.1
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 160: Vickery having gone to see some municipal bigwig, I went down to the Apollo by myself.
at bigwig, n.
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 251: That’s not enough to keep an expensive bit of goods like you on.
at bit of goods, n.
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 44: He’ll catch it!
at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 133: Christmas, look at that!
at Christmas!, excl.
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 156: ‘God, what a crew!’ said Mr Scarfe looking round him.
at crew, n.
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 203: Poor old Pemberton was very cut up about that.
at cut up, adj.1
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 110: I had had a presentiment that my immediate neighbours would be duds from the point of view of company, and duds they were.
at dud, n.2
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 228: Old man, I’m a crook.
at old man, n.
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 228: Do you remember Pemberton’s story about my being mixed up in a ramp with the Baltic and Eastern Industrial Bank?
at ramp, n.2
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 2–3: Slaughter came in with news of a rare old shimozzle that was going on in the town.
at shemozzle, n.
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 270: Pat said he wasn’t a Cissie, so Watterson asked her how she was in a position to tell; which caused much laughter.
at sissy, n.
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 32: He had a business in Warsaw and went smash.
at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1
[UK] D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 133: Christmas, look at that! [...] Some bit!
at some, adj.
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