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[UK] Stage (London) 2 Sept. 8/1: We were much surprised to hear [‘Bonnie’ Kate Harvey] descend to such execrable slang as ‘strike me up a gum tree’ and ‘so help me Bob.’ These expressions are really not funny [and] they are very far from nice.
at strike me up a tree! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[UK] Stage (London) 9 Feb. 17/6: John Bird [...] goes pubbing and plays darts with her secretary.
at pub, v.
[UK] Stage 11 May 16/2: ‘Being in the know’ regarding the best ‘digs’ can only be attained by experience [OED].
at digs, n.1
[UK] Stage (London) 23 May 17/5: He was a slack, lazy, lackadaisical creature.
at slack, adj.
[UK] Stage (London) 11 Jan. 28/2: NEW SONGS / YOU MAY HAVE SOME LOVING BUT YOU CAN’T HAVE IT ALL / DEAREST YOU’RE THE NEAREST TO MY HEART / [...] /TOMAHAWK BLUES / BOBS [sic] YOUR UNCLE.
at bob’s your uncle, phr.
[UK] Stage (London) 11 Oct. 29/1: [advert] The Outstanding Attraction stunners The Entertainment De Luxe.
at stunner, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 24 May 12/4: It’s their business to beat the stuffing out of a song before their rivals.
at beat the stuffing out of (v.) under stuffing, n.1
[UK] Stage (London) 20 June 18/3: The Yankees play the sax (they’re lovely blowers!).
at sax, n.
[UK] Stage 15 77: Usually his idea is to go somewhere where he will see some of his friends and indulge in the quaintly called table-hopping. This is always an enjoyable sport, and gives the doer a certain sense of exhilaration and importance.
at table-hop (v.) under table, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 1 Jan. 12/3: Joy Robins depicts a nasty piece of goods as Discordia the witch.
at piece of goods (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 7 Jan. 24/4: Ping and Pong the lively Chinese policemen.
at pong, n.2
[UK] Stage (London) 23 Feb. 7/1: His humour [...] was patchy — one minute he’d come up with a side-splitter, then he’d inflict a couple of egg-layers.
at side-splitter, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 15 Feb. 5/4: Adam Faith is a screaming sucess.
at screaming, adj.
[UK] Stage (London) 17 June 4/6: Wild Wee Willie Haris hammered seven kinds of hell out of the paino.
at seven kinds of hell under hell, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 20 May 5/4: The chestnut trees are in full bloom and form a superb background to the lovely bridge that crosses the Serps.
at Serps, the, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 16 Mar. 24/4: The hilarious ‘bun-fight’ finale.
at bunfight (n.) under bun, n.3
[UK] Stage (London) 17 Aug. 83/3: [O]range skid-lidded motor-cyclists.
at skidlid (n.) under skid, v.
[UK] Stage (London) 25 Jan. 12/2: It is important tnat people conducting discussions should take care that one side or the other is not exposed to mud-slinging.
at mud-slinging, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 10 Jan. 16/4: He brought to it the touich of lively Yorkshire comedy (with no attempt to posh up the accent).
at posh (up) (v.) under posh, adj.
[UK] Stage (London) 9 Oct. 15/2: ‘Silly cow,’ he says witheringly.
at silly cow (n.) under silly, adj.
[UK] Stage (London) 8 Dec. 5/3: Help! Entrepreneur/polymath, bored out of his skull with making money, invites sensible proposals.
at out of one’s skull (adj.) under skull, n.1
[UK] Stage (London) 12 May 5/5: [pic. caption] Great Suffering Snakes!
at suffering —!, excl.
[UK] Stage (London) 5 Oct. 21/4: Elvis Payne and Patrick Muray were full of vitality and [...] a knd of cockney sassiness.
at sassiness (n.) under sass, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 23 Mar. 6/2: She accentuates the fact by wearing what she calls her ‘Guatemalan schmutter’.
at schmutter, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 23 Mar. 6/2: Frank, a schmutter salesman.
at schmutter, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 27 Sept. 4/5: The Raymond revuebar [...] is now presenting American sex queen Marilyn Chambers live on stage.
at sex goddess (n.) under sex, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 5 July 14/4: He manoeuvres himself around into a situation where he can spout off about George Jackson.
at spout off (v.) under spout, v.1
[UK] Stage (London) 2 Apr. 23/6: Corne’s Amneris was an interesting interpretation, very much the spoilt sex kitten.
at sex kitten (n.) under sex, n.
[UK] Stage (London) 18 Aug. 2/4: The theatre had a special cake made [...] and invited all the staff to the bun-fight.
at bunfight (n.) under bun, n.3
[UK] Stage (London) 24 Mar. 7/3: Lenny Henry [...] is a confident stand up patter man.
at patter, n.
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