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4 Dec. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 141: I have never cared a row of pins what people thought about me.at not care a pin, v.
4 Dec. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 141: I have never cared a row of pins what people thought about me. 11 May diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 23: We came home from work on Monday evening, ‘bewitched, buggered and bewildered’ as a friend of ours used to say.at buggered, adj.2
11 July diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 58: I have never been inside this cinema; it is centrally situated, but looks drab and buggy.at buggy, adj.1
6 Feb. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 177: All this ‘austerity’ is largely bunkum [...] I think if the Government continues to force this austerity nonsense on us the people won’t stand for such twaddle.at bunkum, n.
13 Dec. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 147: I had to listen to a lot of the usual Tory claptrap.at clap-trap, n.1
14 Nov. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 125: I had to laugh at the description in the Daily Express today of bus clippies after the match yesterday trying to enforce this ‘no standing’ law on 85,000 football fans.at clippie, n.1
11 May diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 24: Drat. I’ll scratch the paper off sometime this weekend.at drat!, excl.
12 June diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 41: I had to dodge an American jeep [...] The jeep had the name ‘Dream Boat’ on it.at dreamboat, n.
19 Oct. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 116: The woman who cleans corridors, foyers, lifts, etc. to these flats was going off the deep end terribly yesterday. She had just swept two French letters out of the phone booth in the foyer.at French letter, n.
15 May diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 25: Churchill sounded tired when he spoke on Sunday. I think he should be put to grass, as he calls it.at put out to grass (v.) under grass, n.1
25 May diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 32: Certain things had been put back on their shelves and ledges with the symmetry so beloved of Mrs. Mops.at Mrs Mopp (n.) under Mrs, n.
1 Dec. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 137: I may go out tonight and have ‘one or two’.at one, n.1
diary 8 Dec. in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 143: I thought he looked very seedy and ‘played out’.at played (out), adj.
11 May diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 24: I waited in a queue to spend a 1d.at spend a penny (v.) under penny, n.
diary 3 Dec. in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 139: I’m sure terrible trouble is coming soon to India and do wish we’d scram out while we safely can.at scram, v.
22 Jan. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 170: They dissipate all their energies on utterly piffling things, things that don’t matter a tuppeny damn.at not matter a tuppenny (damn), v.
8 Jan. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 165: DJ [...] said Picasso had been encouraged to paint pictures by the ‘Jew Boys’ who were making packets out of the exhibition.at Jew boy, n.
5 Apr. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 201: I must look very old when I go with my bucket and tools to the plot: several times I have been spoken to as ‘Dad’.at dad, n.2
28 Apr. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 210: Lady Mendl, who was the wife of the British Ambassador in Paris [...] wants a different hair ‘do’ every day.at do, n.
28 March diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 198: I have no time for such things, give me a brush, some soap and elbow grease and I’m happy.at elbow grease, n.
1 Jan. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 162: And now all these New Year’s honours. Shucks. Makes us tired.at shucks!, excl.
1 Jan. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 162: I came across [a] Rudyard Kipling signature on one of his cheques in the New Oriental Bank which went Smash.at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1
7 Sept. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 271: Much scandal, too, is circulating at present about members of the Government. Bevin, it is said, is a ‘soak’.at soak, n.1
15 Apr. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 205: The Yanks are so fearfully overbearing and boastful when they go with a lot of ‘spare’ women.at spare, adj.
11 April diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 379: A gardener is an angry man / When he has done dug and raked and hoed [...] And then the neighbour’s cats come round / And hold a ‘beano’ on his ground.at beano, n.1
3 June diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 405: The locals are bellyaching as usual.at bellyache, v.
18 Feb. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 355: He has been laid up with some kind of ‘itis’.at -itis, sfx
5 Feb. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 348: At the Lane I left for an interesting old cuckoo clock and got it for 34/-.at Lane, the, n.
3 Apr. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 375: Alas for the poor nig who jumped on the royal car in South Africa.at nig, n.2
21 Jan. diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 340: The BBC news at one o’clock said there was a pea-soup fog in some parts of London.at peasouper, n.
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