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[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 23 Oct. 4/1: The younger ones could not quite realise why the elder brothers should all at once give them the ‘go by’ and soar into the glories of yachts at Cowes [...] and moors in Scotland, while to them was left the insignificant careers of struggling on, on an allowance of £400 a year.
at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 23 Oct. 4/2: I think it's a clipping idea, and I'm deuced sweet, on it myself.
at clipping, adj.2
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 23 Oct. 4/1: ‘One of us must marry an heiress. I don't see any other way of pulling through.’ ‘But how the deuce are we to get hold of one?’.
at deuce, the, phr.
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 23 Oct. 4/2: . If the Honorable Charlie were hard-up [...] wished to do a bill, [...] Bob was the accommodating friend who, to use the expression in vogue among the money lending fraternity and its victims, ‘jumped on his back’.
at do, v.1
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 23 Oct. 4/2: . If the Honorable Charlie were hard-up [...] Bob was the accommodating friend [...] while, on the other hand, if Bob was—to borrow his own term — ‘jammed,’ the Honorable Charles was equally ready to perform the same kind office for him.
at jammed, adj.2
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 23 Oct. 4/2: . If the Honorable Charlie were hard-up [...] wished to do a bill, [...] Bob was the accommodating friend who, to use the expression in vogue among the money lending fraternity and its victims, ‘jumped on his back’.
at jump on someone’s back (v.) under jump, v.
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 23 Oct. 4/1: Charley and Bob were sitting in the latter’s quarters, combining the three enjoyments of a quiet smoke, a ‘liquor,’ and a friendly chat.
at liquor, n.
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser 23 Oct. 4/2: That’s just the bare outline of the plot, but we can work it into something screaming, you and I.
at screaming, adj.
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser 23 Oct. 4/2: The old girl is always sloping about sketching.
at slope about (v.) under slope, v.2
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 23 Oct. 4/2: I think it's a clipping idea, and I'm deuced sweet, on it myself.
at sweet on (adj.) under sweet, adj.1
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser 23 Oct. 4/2: They say he was as near as a toucher succeeding.
at toucher, n.1
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser 23 Oct. 4/2: The scales fell from her eyes, and she twigged that it was her money and not herself they were after.
at twig, v.2
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser 23 Oct. 4/2: She came in for this whacking fortune.
at whacking, adj.
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 9 Apr. 3/3: Now-a-days we are not so particular as to the matter of dress, though most gents prefer being present in a white vest, a nail-can hat, or a claw-hammer coat.
at nail can (n.) under nail, n.1
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) (Supp.) 15 Sept. 1/3: [M]ilitary fashions are set by griffinish commanding officers, whose theory is that a man can be ‘inured’ to the sun by freely exposing him to its full force.
at griffinish (adj.) under griffin, n.1
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 5 Sept. 2/7: E. Davis has again taken up Babette, who looks [...] big and blooming. The honest old battler will not, however, be put into work for some time.
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[Aus] Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW) 6 Apr. 2/6: What sort of a steersman is George Wickey over obstacles? Not bad, I guess [...] he came at the first hurdle as if he was on as safe a conveyance as Frantic.
at conveyance, n.
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