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[UK] C. Hamilton William – An Englishman (1999) 72: You are balmy on the crumpet, both of you. Balmy.
at balmy, adj.
[UK] C. Hamilton William – An Englishman (1999) 218: He gathered from the sharp-sighted corporal that there were two Fritz planes overhead.
at Fritz, adj.
[UK] C. Hamilton William – An Englishman (1999) 213: Then he too rose in his turn, and went back to the town – to the rat-trap wherein he made war!
at rat trap, n.1
[UK] C. Hamilton William – An Englishman (1999) 68: ‘Let me go,’ she cried, wriggling in his grasp as she had wriggled aforetime in the hands of a London policeman, and kicking him deftly on the shins as she had been wont to kick Robert on his.
at robert, n.
[UK] C. Hamilton William – An Englishman (1999) 193: Next morning he tubed to the other end of London.
at tube (it) (v.) under tube, n.1
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