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A Shilling for Candles choose

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[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 47: ‘Hooey! [...] not one of us cared a brass farthing for her’.
at not care a farthing, v.
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 37: ‘You mean she thinks he’s a wrong’un?’ ‘No. Just no acount’.
at no-account, adj.
[Scot] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 16: I’ll take my alfred davy she never did.
at alfred david, n.
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 47: ‘Oh, bunk!’ said Judy.
at bunk!, excl.
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 84: The coat [...] had been taken by a ‘casual’.
at casual, n.1
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 19: All right for song writers and that sort of cattle, but rough on a film, very rough.
at cattle, n.
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 82: There were one or two crabbers, of course.
at crabber, n.
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 34: Have you been giving him the third degree [...] You’re police, aren’t you?
at third degree, n.
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 153: ‘This is a rum go, sir’.
at go, n.1
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 147: ‘Nothing surprises me any more. Ever seen Holy Rollers?’.
at Holy Roller, n.
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles (1958) 47: ‘Hooey! [...] not one of us cared a brass farthing for her’.
at hooey!, excl.
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 133: They were ‘out’ of his usual cigarettes.
at out, adv.1
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 12: I’ve always been a rabbit at games.
at rabbit, n.1
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 132: I thought they ran rubbernecking tours for the middle-west fans.
at rubberneck, v.
[UK] ‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles 135: ‘You got a ‘thing’ about astrology?’.
at thing, n.
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