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Hell Hounds of France choose

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[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Hell Hounds of France 13: [Y]ou’ve had enough wine to last any ordinary man a lifetime.’ ‘Yeah?’ ‘Yes. Even if you konk out tonight’.
at conk (out), v.
[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Hell Hounds of France 89: Freshers had to learn [...] that a Légion N.C.O. must be saluted, whether in or out of barracks [...] Failure to comply meant a flogging.
at fresher, n.
[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Hell Hounds of France 174: ‘Now, listen, you bull-nosed Jerries, no hokey-pokey business. D’ja get me?’ .
at hokey-pokey, adj.
[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Hell Hounds of France 221: ‘Wait a minute, you big stiff! Who’s talking about escape? Your blinking American hustle is overstepping itself. I’m suggesting we get the crowd to mutiny against the rotten food’.
at hustle, n.
[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Hell Hounds of France 48: ‘I guess, Barrington, you should come fifty-fifty with me on this, you big hobo.’ ‘Not on your sweet life, boy!’ .
at not on your life under life, n.
[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Hell Hounds of France 200: ‘Hey! You ten cent Dago! [...] [W]hat made you come to Syria at all?’ [...] ‘I have one girl. She no good. She go with ‘nother fellow. I kill.’ ‘We’ve heard that one, Tally. Cut it out!’.
at tally, n.2
[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Hell Hounds of France 15: He went cafard. He had wrenched out his bayonet and had put paid to the corporal’s ticket before any of us had time to realise what was happening.
at put paid to someone’s ticket (v.) under ticket, n.1
[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Hell Hounds of France 243: [A] letter from McCann, inviting me for the umpteenth time to join him in South America .
at umpteenth (adj.) under umpteen, adj.
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