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[UK] ‘Ford Madox Ford’ Man Could Stand Up 38: They had the same sort of good, bread-and-butter brains.
at bread-and-butter, adj.
[UK] ‘Ford Madox Ford’ Man Could Stand Up 159: ‘Shout Banzai! men,’ he said.
at banzai!, excl.
[UK] ‘Ford Madox Ford’ Man Could Stand Up 110: You shut your bleedin’ mouth, you man, or I’ll shove you in the b----y clink!
at bleeding, adj.
[UK] ‘Ford Madox Ford’ Man Could Stand Up 271: They all yelled ‘Hullo Duckfoot . . . Hullo Brassface!’.
at brass-face (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] F.M. Ford Man Could Stand Up 110: Better’n a bleedin’ dipso!
at dipso, n.
[UK] ‘Ford Madox Ford’ Man Could Stand Up 96: He sat up in his flea-bag, dripping with icy sweat.
at fleabag, n.
[UK] ‘Ford Madox Ford’ Man Could Stand Up 164: And . . . Kerumph . . . the wagons of coal would fly over until we recalled our planes and all went to sleep.
at kerumph! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[UK] ‘Ford Madox Ford’ Man Could Stand Up 113: A half a dozen quite decent if trying young squits.
at squit, n.1
[UK] ‘Ford Madox Ford’ Man Could Stand Up 130: The genial, rubicund, slightly whiskified C.O. who finishes every sentence with the words: ‘Eh, what?’.
at what?, phr.
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