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Lighter Side of School Life 200: Thanks ever so much for the ten bob, also the lobster and cake, which are A1.at A-1, adj.
Lighter Side of School Life 200: Thanks ever so much for the ten bob, also the lobster and cake, which are A1. Lighter Side of School Life 65: I asked for one [i.e. a squash court booking] after breakfast, and Etherington said they were all bagged.at bag, v.
Lighter Side of School Life 184: When he gets in a bait about anything it is always a sound plan to get him to talk about one of these rotten things.at bait, n.2
Lighter Side of School Life 81: Mr. Wellings’ reputation throughout the school [...] was that of a ‘chronic blister’.at blister, n.1
Lighter Side of School Life 102: Blake had replied by recommending his late crony to return to his study and boil his head.at go and boil (the back of) your head! (excl.) under boil, v.
Lighter Side of School Life 73: He bungs up the hole in the holidays — to keep the bugs from getting in.at bung up, v.
Lighter Side of School Life 211: When he went up for his exam, he went on the bust the night before.at on the bust under bust, n.
Lighter Side of School Life 118: Ashley minor, chuck it!at chuck it!, excl.
Lighter Side of School Life 95: ‘I’m to be a prefect next term.’ ‘Oh! Congratters!’.at congrats, n.
Lighter Side of School Life 140: He is a rare bird, the confirmed cribber, with his algebraical formulae written on his finger-nails, and history notes attached to unreliable elastic arrangements which shoot up his sleeve out of reach at critical moments.at cribber, n.1
Lighter Side of School Life 102: I’ll be damned if I take it lying down!at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
Lighter Side of School Life 203: We are going to rag a man’s study for wearing a dickey.at dicky, n.1
Lighter Side of School Life 117: Dry up, Ashley minor!at dry up, v.
Lighter Side of School Life 190: He’s not a bad lad, as lads go, but he wants his jacket dusted now and then.at dust someone’s jacket (v.) under dust, v.1
Lighter Side of School Life 71: ‘You are going to the San.’ ‘Good egg [...] I shall get off Dummy’s extra after tea!’.at good egg!, excl.
Lighter Side of School Life 77: It sounds like a fairy tale, sir.at fairy-story (n.) under fairy, n.1
Lighter Side of School Life 124: He [i.e. a schoolmaster] is hidebound, ‘groovy’; he cannot break away from tradition.at groovy, adj.1
Lighter Side of School Life 79: Mr. Bull was not a great scholar: some of the ‘highbrow’ members of the Staff professed to despise his humble attainments.at highbrow, adj.
Lighter Side of School Life 10: He was a holy terror — and the greatest man that ever lived.at holy terror, n.
Lighter Side of School Life 201: You seem to have been getting into hot water all round.at hot water, n.
Lighter Side of School Life 203: Aunt Deborah hasn’t weighed in yet.at weigh in, v.
Lighter Side of School Life 51: Do you remember the jaw he gave us when the news came about Macpherson’s V.C.?at jaw, n.
Lighter Side of School Life 53: He didn’t jaw me, but said I could take an hour off school and go and telegraph home.at jaw, v.1
Lighter Side of School Life 224: A newly elected Member of Parliament [...] rarely if ever addresses the House during his first session. He leaves that to Radical thrusters and Scotsmen on the make.at on the make under make, n.2
Lighter Side of School Life 9: [of a headmaster] It’s a treat to see the way the old man keeps B and C up to the collar.at old man, n.
Lighter Side of School Life 202: How is your mangy school? Wait till our XV plays you on the 18th!at mangy, adj.
Lighter Side of School Life 200: You might mention this casually to the pater.at pater, n.
Lighter Side of School Life 138: He is greatly addicted to a more venial crime known as ‘paving’. The paver prepares his translation in the orthodox manner, but whenever he has occasion to look up a word in a lexicon, he scribbles its meaning in the margin of the text, or, more frequently, just over the word itself.at pave, v.1
Lighter Side of School Life 177: A schoolboy with his ‘people’ in tow neither expects nor desires the society of his friends.at people, n.
Lighter Side of School Life 49: He has to exercise considerable commercial enterprise in order to make a sufficient ‘pile’ to retire upon.at pile, n.1
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