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honest. 2. to have it on one's toes to run away. E.g. I had it across the
road on my toes.
toe-cover noun A cheap and useless present. E.g. Gifts are
given, not only the completely useless trivia or 'toe-covers' which litter
the surgery, but more substantial gifts, such as briefcases.
toe-rag noun Brit. A contemptible or worthless person.
E.g. Move, ya useless big toerag! [From earlier sense, tramp,
vagrant, from the rag wound round a tramp's foot in place of a
sock.]
toff Brit. noun 1. An upper-class, distinguished, or well-
dressed person, a 'nob'. E.g. The mantelpiece or overmantel as the
toffs say. 2. An admirable or excellent person. verb trans. 3. To
dress up like a toff. E.g. Notice the perfect stillness when the 'lovely
lidy all toffed up' sings. [Perh. an alteration of tuft noun, titled
undergraduate at Oxford and Cambridge, from the gold tassel
formerly worn on the cap.]
toffee-nosed adjective mainly Brit Snobbish, pretentious. E.g.
A premature 'life' will do more to disgust the select and superior people
(the R.A.F. call them the 'toffee-nosed') than anything. Hence toffee-
nose, noun A toffee-nosed person. E.g. People thought I was a bit of a
toffee-nose for the first few months because I didn't speak to them.
together adjective Fashionable, up to date; hence used as a
general term of approval. E.g. I read in the Miami Herald that
conditions in the women's jails [are] not so together.
wall noun 1. over the wall escaped from prison. E.g. He's
out. Over the wall. 2. off the wall US Unorthodox, unconventional.
E.g. Brian knows how to startle the over-interviewed with off-the-wall
questions that get surprising answers: Ever see a ghost?
wallah noun Also wal(l) a orig. Anglo-Indian 1. A person
concerned with or in charge of a usu. specified thing, business, etc.
E.g. It's marvellous what these ambulance wallas can do at a pinch. 2.
derog A person doing a routine administrative job; a bureaucrat.
E.g. Some wallahs in Canberra are sitting in air-conditioned offices
telling us what has been flooded and what hasn't.