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[UK] H.S. Harrison Queed 84: Something loose in his belfry, as ye might have surmised from them damfool tax-drools.
at belfry, n.
[UK] H.S. Harrison Queed 392: He had never once made a bull in ‘Mr. Queed’s copy’ since the day of the famous fleas.
at pull a bull (v.) under bull, n.2
[UK] H.S. Harrison Queed 87: You body’s got to carry your mind around, and if it lays down on you, what—.
at lay down, v.
[UK] H.S. Harrison Queed 84: Something loose in his belfry, as ye might have surmised from them damfool tax-drools.
at drool, n.
[UK] H.S. Harrison Queed v 56: She had only pretended to die in order to make a fade-away with the gate receipts.
at fadeaway, n.
[UK] H.S. Harrison Queed 230: So ran the editorial, which was offensively headed ‘West’s Fatal Flop’.
at flop, n.3
[UK] H.S. Harrison Queed 323: What chance’d there be of namin’ to lead the party in the city the man who had knifed the party in the State?
at knife, v.
[US] H.S. Harrison Queed 45: The morning Post was an old paper... It had crucified carpet-baggism and scalawaggery upon a cross of burning adjectives [OED].
at scallywaggery (n.) under scallywag, n.
[UK] H.S. Harrison Queed 89: Klinker picked up a ‘sneaker’ from the floor and hurled it.
at sneaker, n.3
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