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The Lighter Side of School Life choose

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[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 81: Mr. Wellings’ reputation throughout the school [...] was that of a ‘chronic blister’.
at blister, n.1
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 118: Ashley minor, chuck it!
at chuck it!, excl.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 95: ‘I’m to be a prefect next term.’ ‘Oh! Congratters!’.
at congrats, n.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 203: We are going to rag a man’s study for wearing a dickey.
at dicky, n.1
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 117: Dry up, Ashley minor!
at dry up, v.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 77: It sounds like a fairy tale, sir.
at fairy-story (n.) under fairy, n.1
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 124: He [i.e. a schoolmaster] is hidebound, ‘groovy’; he cannot break away from tradition.
at groovy, adj.1
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 10: He was a holy terror — and the greatest man that ever lived.
at holy terror, n.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 201: You seem to have been getting into hot water all round.
at hot water, n.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 203: Aunt Deborah hasn’t weighed in yet.
at weigh in, v.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 202: How is your mangy school? Wait till our XV plays you on the 18th!
at mangy, adj.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 200: You might mention this casually to the pater.
at pater, n.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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.
[Scot] ‘Ian Hay’ 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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