Word: duff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been much more so. . . . Some of our idioms and phrasings . . . that you have chosen are not as universally used as your article would indicate. For instance, whilst "on a rhubarb" is used somewhat, the more universal expression is "on a piece of cake" or "on a piece of duff." Then again, you attempt to give the degrees of fedupness in terms of "browned off," "cheesed off" and "brassed off," but actually there are no degrees of fedupness, for when you are fed up you are fed up, and that's all there...
Slang-hardened American flyers have been fascinated by "pukka gen," which means honest-to-God authoritative information. "Duff gen" is a wrong steer...
...Conservative party leader in Ontario province, hadn't been talking through his hat. The charges he made were twofold: 1) that the 2,000 Canadian soldiers sent to Hong Kong and promptly killed or captured had been miserably undertrained and tragically underequipped; 2) that Chief Justice Sir Lyman Duff, acting as a royal commission, had absolved those responsible...
Lord MacMillan was dull. Sir John Reith was dour. Alfred Duff Cooper was social. Then into the British Ministry of Information came red-haired Brendan Bracken, young (41), quick-witted protege of Winston Churchill...
Into her majority and with it some $3,900,000 came Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly, onetime queen of the Manhattan glamor debs, now queen of a triplex apartment with Husband John ("Shipwreck") Kelly. Last week at least two of the newspapers that used to publicize all her doings in café society published the fact that her chief interest now, besides keeping house, is "having a family...