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[UK] Wells Jrnl 28 Apr. 4/3: He has a good voice to beg bacon.
at good voice to beg bacon (n.) under good, adj.1
[UK] Wells Jrnl 26 Dec. 6/6: If you sound them too thumpingly, persons will only run away from you.
at thumpingly, adv.
[UK] Wells Jrnl 6 Feb. 4/5: ‘How do I look, Pompey?’ said a young dandy to his serrvant [...] ‘Elegant, massa’.
at Pompey, n.
[UK] Wells Jrnl 5 Nov. 6/4: Tempus fugit, alas! [...] Black Monday has come, my vacation is ended.
at black Monday (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Wells Jrnl (UK) 18 July 3/6: Old English words and phrases [...] Hold your gab, shut up your gob.
at stop your gab! (excl.) under gab, n.1
[UK] Wells Jrnl (UK) 18 July 3/6: Old English words and phrases [...] Hold your gab, shut up your gob.
at shut (up) one’s gob (v.) under gob, n.1
[UK] Wells Jrnl 30 Jan. 6/5: A poor half-starved creature, named Emily Druce, / Was dragged by a Knight of the thimble and goose.
at ...the thimble under knight of the..., n.
[UK] Wells Jrnl 2 Oct. 2/6: You bet your life I’ll take the 50 an’ go to-morrer.
at (you) bet your life! (excl.) under bet, v.
[UK] Wells Jrnl 13 Aug. 8/4: ‘What the deuce is a cowspanker,’ though I.
at cow-spanker (n.) under cow, n.1
[UK] Wells Jrnl 7 Sept. 6/5: The enduring ones must reap the best rewards, unless in the very exceptional cases of those who canat the outset burn the Thames.
at burn the Thames (v.) under burn, v.
[UK] Wells Jrnl 16 June 3/3: When it comes right down to brass tacks we can whip the whole the rest of the world combined at the drop of a hat.
at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
[UK] Wells Jrnl 15 Jan. 9/1: He is a Dalmatian, what we called a ‘plum pudding dog’ when we were young.
at plum-pudding (dog), n.
[UK] Wells Jrnl 25 Jan. 2/5: The local knights of the sock and buskin had formed themselves into the Village Dramatic Society.
at brother (of the) buskin (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[UK] Wells Jrnl 13 Aug. 4/5: A Council, who voices our views, / Should not make a scene, which can only mean / A ridiculous page in the news / [...] / And the Chamber a mere booby hutch.
at booby-hutch, n.
[UK] Wells Jrnl 13 Aug. 4/5: ‘ff Their Onion’. A Council, who voices our views, / Should not make a scene, which can only mean / A ridiculous page in the news / [...] / And the Chamber a mere booby hutch.
at off one’s onion (adj.) under onion, n.1
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