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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 17 Apr. 25/6: WILLIAM ELLIOT CURTIS presents THE GO ONE BETTER REVUE, SWEET FANNIE ADAMS In Three Scenes. The Great French Success. As played by (and including) Members of tbe 42nd Divisional Concert Party.
at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
[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.1
[UK] Stage (London) 23 Mar. 6/2: Frank, a schmutter salesman.
at schmutter, 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) 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
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