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The West Pier choose

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[UK] P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 147: You can be cool and cut the meeting short—can’t you? You’ll know how to choke him off.
at choke off, v.
[UK] P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 83: Being in her best dress, and ‘got up to the nines,’ she was tonight in one of these optimistic moods.
at up to the nines, phr.
[UK] P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 226: I needn’t have gone into all that palaver at all.
at palaver, n.
[UK] P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 198: We haven’t got the car tonight. Old Gosling’s a bit sticky about it.
at sticky, adj.1
[UK] P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 233: ‘She ended up by threatening to call a policeman.’ ‘A policeman!’ exclaimed George. [...] ‘Yes. That does sound a bit stiff, I must say.’.
at stiff, adj.
[UK] P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 238: Haven’t you heard the expression ‘my uncle’ – meaning a pawnbroker?
at uncle, n.
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