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[UK] Dly Record (Glasgow) 22 Sept. 3/4: [headline] Five Enemy Warships Enaged and bested.
at bested (adj.) under best, v.
[UK] Dly Record (Glasgow) 18 Jan. 9/2: I know she thought my letters the best of the bunch.
at bunch, n.1
[UK] Dly Record (Glasgow) 10 Dec. 5/4: They’ll knock the Japs for a row of ornamental ash-cans.
at knock for a row of... (v.) under knock, v.
[UK] Dly Record 24 July 5/5: The Right Stuff. ‘Germany short of brass’.
at right stuff, n.
[UK] Dly Record 26 Mar. 8/6: This of course doesn’t worry Adolf [Hitler] who’s off his crumpet anyway.
at off one’s crumpet (adj.) under crumpet, n.
[UK] Dly Record 4 Apr. 40/4: The SFA decision [...] has proved about as popular as a pork chop at a Jewish wedding.
at as popular as a pork chop at a Jewish wedding under pork chop at a Jewish wedding, phr.
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