"He does the noises off."
"How do you mean, the noises off?"
"Well, when they have a sketch of something where they have to have noises, Blair makes them."
"I get you. You mean, somebody says, 'Hurrah, girls, here comes the Royal Bodyguard!' and Blair goes tramp, tramp, tramp."
"Yes. And all sorts of other noises. He's awfully clever at it."
Packy nodded.
"I can see why you want to marry him. The home can never be dull if at any moment the husband is able to imitate a motor horn or the mating-cry of a boll weevil."
(from Hot Water, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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