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Young Tom Hall (1926) 321: Jug and Mrs Blunt were, as Mr Doiley sad, ‘in the arms of Murphy’.at in the arms of murphy under arms of murphy, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 321: Jug and Mrs Blunt were, as Mr Doiley sad, ‘in the arms of Murphy’. Young Tom Hall (1926) 313: What the deuce did you bring that nasty old baggage here for?at baggage, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 222: Captain Balmeybucke, who worshipped her eyes, and worshipped her nose, and worshipped her lips, and worshipped her teeth [...] and worshipped everything about here.at balmy, adj.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 162: A great, banging bright-brown fox darted across the junction of the rides.at banging, adj.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 127: Fourpence! [...] why don’t you pay your pike, you dirty bilks?at bilk, n.
Young Tom Hall 7: Hall [...] had had the offer of many other ‘bites’ beside Sloper’s — for escaping which he was more indebted to his own acuteness than to the candour of the would-be biters.at bite, n.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 183: I don’t hold with some that, because I’ve been bit, I’ve to bite others. Oh no, that’s not the way — fair dealin’s a jewel.at bite, v.
Young Tom Hall 7: ‘Don’t like the milintary, replied Hall [...] ‘That’s only because Captain Sloper bit you’ [...] Hall [...] had had the offer of many other ‘bites’ beside Sloper’s — for escaping which he was more indebted to his own acuteness than to the candour of the would-be biters.at bite, v.
Young Tom Hall 7: Hall [...] had had the offer of many other ‘bites’ beside Sloper’s — for escaping which he was more indebted to his own acuteness than to the candour of the would-be biters.at biter, n.1
Young Tom Hall 9: Colonel Blunt [...] a great, coarse, blackleg sort of man.at blackleg, adj.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 89: They say the emperor and her majesty have had another breeze.at breeze, n.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 278: Mr Dweller [...] having ferreted out Guinea’s early career, had the impudence to talk of him [...] as a brother chip — ‘one of us’.at brother chip (n.) under brother, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 63: [of a horse purchase] The major saw, by the self-satisfied grin on Tom’s face, as he at length returned with the slack rein of confidence, that it was a ‘case’.at case, n.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 73: We’ll have a light breakfast here — slops (catlap, you know) and so on — then drive there and have a regular tuck-out.at cat-lap (n.) under cat, n.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 99: Which is the way to the cat-lap shop? [...] The cat-lap shop — the breakfast-room, to be sure.at cat-lap (n.) under cat, n.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 32: Making up to this man when told he was a ‘catch’ — chopping over to that when advised he was ‘better’.at chop, v.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 59: He belonged to poor Charley Chucklehead of the Bluth, who drank himself detheased.at chucklehead, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 231: And now, after this wide hare-hunting circumbendibus, [...] we again break off at the major’s invitation to Tom Hall.at circumbendibus, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 218: She thought him a queerish-looking, cod’s-head-and-shoulders little man.at cod’s head, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 273: I ’ope this will be a lesson to all mammas, how they let these nasty, intriguing foreigneering chaps come about their daughters.at foreigneering cove, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 10: Being in the secret of the then great coming cross between Sledgehammer, the blacksmith, and Granitenob, the miner.at cross, n.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 70: Dash my sabretache if there’s tuppence to choose atween ’em!at dash, v.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 324: She would have backed herself at ten to one to be a countess. What a dasher she would be.at dasher, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 314: It’s a bad job, a deuced bad job.at deuced, adj.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 142: I’ve no doubt you’ll come down divilish handsome — turn some of your dibs into land and buy them a god substantial family house.at dibbs, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 199: Old Hall, however, was not to be done that way.at do, v.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 72: We must have the drag overhauled [...] and I vote we have the ballet-girl [...] painted out and a rattling Fox with a ‘tallyho’ painted in.at drag, n.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 111: They always want me to come down with the dust [...] and, by Jove! I can’t — I’ve nothing to give.at down with one’s dust (v.) under dust, n.
Young Tom Hall (1926) 105: ‘Oh, colonel, you are much better without brandy,’ exclaimed his wife [...] ‘You be fiddled [...] you be fiddled; d’ye think I don’t know what agrees with me better than you?’.at fiddle, v.1
Young Tom Hall (1926) 103: Those Daniel Lamberts upstairs want a fresh bottle of fizzey.at fizzy, n.
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