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The Well of Loneliness choose

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[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 214: I don’t care a tinker’s darn what you say!
at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 181: He thinks that because I took a lover when I was literally down and out, I’m likely to do the same thing now.
at down-and-out, adj.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 46: Now go quiet, you young blight!
at blighter, n.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 231: Damn the thing, it’s too utterly bloody! It’s ruined my gloves, and now look at the table!
at bloody, adj.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 49: Why, he only gave you the brush for fun, because you were such a small kid.
at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 234: My work will buck up – I’ve been feeling slack lately, and it’s told on my writing.
at buck up, v.2
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 224: Now uncle be qui-et I do be-seech ’e! It’s so bad for ’e carryin’ on in this wise.
at carry on, v.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 20: Did you ever know such a queer fish as she is? [...] She’s a caution!
at caution, n.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 48: ‘Oh, chuck it!’ growled Roger.
at chuck it!, excl.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 181: I’d nowhere to turn and my health was crocking.
at crock, v.
[UK] Radclyffe Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 151: It’s all this damned animal’s fault that you met her!
at damned, adj.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 393: And looking with abhorrence upon these men, drink-sodden, doped as were only too many.
at doped, adj.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 102: Drat the boy, what be ’e a-doin’?
at drat, v.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 368: Oh, boy! What a gang! Say, folks, aren’t we having a hell of an evening?
at hell of a, a under hell, n.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 349: You’re not playing fair with that girl; the life she’s leading would depress a mother abbess. It’s enough to give anybody the hump.
at give someone the hump (v.) under hump, n.1
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 247: The Grigg’s just come into pots and pots of money, so I hope they’ll be deliriously happy and silly while it lasts.
at pot, n.1
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 20: Did you ever know such a queer fish as she is?
at queer fish (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 216: ‘You look tired to death; why not lie down and rest?’ ‘Rot! I want to work.’.
at rot!, excl.2
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 44: You’re a dear little sop, that’s what you are!
at sop, n.
[UK] R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 233: I can put you wise about people in Paris. You ought to know Valerie Seymour, for instance.
at put (someone) wise (v.) under wise, adj.
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