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Updated: May 15, 2025
'By Jove, I said, for I am interested in this heredity stuff, 'perhaps the thing is going to be a regular family tradition, like you read about in books a sort of Curse of the Mannering-Phippses, as it were. Perhaps each head of the family's going to marry into vaudeville for ever and ever. Unto the what-d'you-call-it generation, don't you know? 'Please do not be quite idiotic, Bertie.
"Well, it's like this. Remember I've known the old devil . . ." "Freddie Rooke! Where do you pick up such expressions? Not from me!" "Well, that's how I always think of her! I say I've known her ever since I used to go and stop at their place when I was at school, and I know exactly the sort of things that put her back up. She's a what-d'you-call-it." "I see no harm in that.
Why couldn't you, for instance, have taken on the agency of that what-d'you-call-it car? 'What I called it would have been nothing to what the poor devils who bought it would have called it. 'You could have sold hundreds of them, and the company would have given you any commission you asked. You know just the sort of people they wanted to get in touch with.
Only the daughter of a country doctor; only the underpaid secretary of a lady novelist, for all she was so conceited now. So naturally Socialism, that disease of the underbred, had taken hold of the less careful of the Potter young. 'And are you going to write for this weekly what-d'you-call-it too, Jane? Mrs. Frank inquired. 'No. I've not got a job yet. I'm going to look round a little first.
"Rather thick. Still, I mean A prefects' meeting. Rather like crushing a thingummy with a what-d'you-call-it. Besides, he's a decent kid." "He's frightfully conceited." "Oh, well Well, anyhow, look here, I'll think it over, and let you know to-morrow. It's not the sort of thing to rush through without thinking about it." And the matter was left temporarily at that.
In my next what-d'you-call-it I'll see to it that I get named something really practical something that sounds swell and yet is good and virile something, in fact, like that grand old name so familiar to every household that bold and almost overpowering name, Willis Jimjams Ijams!"
"In theory," said he, "the manly what-d'you-call-it of cricket and all that sort of thing ought to make him fall on your neck tomorrow and weep over you as a foeman worthy of his steel. But I am prepared to bet a reasonable sum that he will give no jujitsu exhibition of this kind.
But that didn't alter the fact that Jeeves had attempted to do the dirty on me, and I suppose a certain what-d'you-call-it had crept into my manner during the above remarks. "There has been no breach," I said. "You might describe it as a passing coolness, but no more.
Why shouldn't the dear old lady be a what-d'you-call-it? She must do something in her spare time." "I mean to say, one of the old school, don't you know. And you're so dashed impulsive, old girl. You know you are! You are always saying things that come into your head." "You can't say a thing unless it comes into your head."
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