sub-cheese

alternative subcheese · alternative subcheeze · alternative subchiz

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   "The whole bloody sub-cheese, the lot!"

   1993, George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1995, →ISBN, page 187

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   Another inch further over would have precipitated the whole sub cheeze, down the incline.

   1859, P. & O., Always Ready, or, Every One His Pride, London: Hall, Virtue, & Co., page 175

   'She's as clever as a man, confound her,' Martyn went on. 'She broke up the bungalow over my head while I was talking at her. Settled the whole subchiz [outfit] in three hours—servants, horses, and all. I didn't get my orders till nine.'

   1898, Rudyard Kipling, “William the Conqueror: Part I”, in The Day's Work, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 181

   'If you'd threatened that earlier, Monty, I'd have ponied up the whole sub-cheese to avoid it.'

   2018, Ben Schott, Jeeves and the King of Clubs, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 17