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New Statesman 2 49: I remember A climbing upstairs to bed in front of her, dreading that saying which followed too often on downstairs good-nights, ‘I am all behind like the cow’s tail’.at all behind like the cow’s tail (adj.) under behind, adv.
New Statesman 2 49: I remember A climbing upstairs to bed in front of her, dreading that saying which followed too often on downstairs good-nights, ‘I am all behind like the cow’s tail’. New Statesman 28 July 507/2: Polynesians in their wild state [were] shipped to Australia by enterprising gentlemen called blackbirders.at blackbirder, n.
New Statesman 28 Sept. n.p.: He [i.e. Mussolini] will cop a flower-pot if he goes on like this.at cop a flower-pot (v.) under cop a..., v.
New Statesman 5 Nov. 715/2: The modern clothes Hamlet at the Old Vic has excited a lot of Blimpish indignation.at blimpish (adj.) under blimp, n.1
New Statesman 29 Nov. in DSUE (1984).at mud in your eye, n.
New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3: [list of war slang] Flannel – To flatter.at flannel, v.
New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3: To stop a rocket, receive a reprimand.at rocket, n.
New Statesman 30 Aug. in DSUE (1984).at snuff-box (n.) under snuff, n.2
New Statesman 25 July 106/2: One can watch the half-crowners filing [...] before the country-house displays of things properly designed and well made .at half-crowner, n.
New Statesman 19 Dec. 874/1: One young sales rep, whom I met quite early in the month, was already discovering his soul and finding the process painful.at rep, n.
New Statesman 14 Apr. 576/2: As the underworld put it, ‘he steamed in like a slag and roughed them up as he topped them.’.at slag, n.1
New Statesman 23 Feb. 274/3: Like all tales about thesps, [it] seems to involve us just that much less in their fate .at thesp, n.
New Statesman 10 Apr. 555/2: ‘To strong it’ means to overdo something, like taking more than 30 purple hearts in one night.at strong (it), v.
New Statesman 14 May 771/2: Presumably the book, finished in 1957, was put on ice.at put on (the) ice (v.) under ice, n.1
New Statesman 19 Mar. 463/1: The spivvish businessman.at spi(v)vish (adj.) under spiv, n.
New Statesman 18 Mar. 363/1: Sir Gerald Nabarro is said to have remarked on TV that the fate of the nation depended on a few swede-bashers.at swede-basher, n.
New Statesman 6 May 654/2: Gobbledygook is the defence of the American intellectual aware of the hostile mockery of the surrounding flatheads.at flathead, n.1
New Statesman 9 Oct. 460/1: Sod’s Law [...] is the force in nature which causes it to rain mostly at weekends, which makes you get flu when you are on holiday, and which makes the phone ring just as you’ve got into the bath.at sod’s law (n.) under sod, n.1
New Statesman 26 Sept. 356: Students are generally the prime targets of anti-elitists because they can be so easily organised into Rentamobs.at rent-a-, pfx
New Statesman 28 Mar. 424: Ms Kavan’s bleak forays among ghastly freakers-out and assorted libbers.at freak out, v.
New Statesman 28 Mar. 424: Ms Kavan’s bleak forays among ghastly freakers-out and assorted libbers.at libber, n.2
New Statesman 27 Oct. 556/2: He appears (or perhaps pretends) to be as tempted as the average patzer, by any old poisoned pawn, and has to have his folly explained to him.at patzer, n.
New Statesman 111 33: A faithful bum-licker called Brittan / By his leaderene's bottom was smitten, / Till Tarzan's denouement / Produced a bowel movement / And poor little Leon got shit on.at bum-licker (n.) under bum, n.1
New Statesman 4734-4626/1: Injuries that, if repeatedly carried out on the streets by a gang of hoodie yobs, would result in a prison sentence of up to five years.at hoodie, n.
New Statesman 23-29 Aug. 36/3: Beach bars advertise cocktails with names that are well-used euphemisms for a large penis [...] ‘Big Bamboo,’ ‘Dirty Banana,’ ‘Jamaican Steel’.at bamboo, n.
New Statesman 23-29 Aug. 36/3: Beach bars advertise cocktails with names that are well-used euphemisms for a large penis [...] ‘Big Bamboo,’ ‘Dirty Banana,’ ‘Jamaican Steel’.at banana, n.
New Statesman 23-29 Aug. 44/3: Travellers? We know who they are. Tinkers, pikers, didicoi.at diddicoi, n.
New Statesman 23-29 Aug. 36/3: I look for a milk bottle (white women just arrived on the island). Milk bottles that need filling.at milk bottle (n.) under milk, n.
New Statesman 23-29 Aug. 44/3: Travellers? We know who they are. Tinkers, pikers, didicoi.at piker, n.
New Statesman 23-29 Aug. 36/3: Beach bars advertise cocktails with names that are well-used euphemisms for a large penis [...] ‘Big Bamboo,’ ‘Dirty Banana,’ ‘Jamaican Steel’.at pink steel (n.) under steel, n.
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