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[UK] D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 189: ‘He took out a plated cigarette case. ‘Present,’ he said. ‘I bet my uncle with three balls has it in a week. Have a best Turkish’.
at three balls, n.
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog July 191: He put the receiver down. ‘That boy ‘s a buddy dreamer,’ he said to no one. He never swore.
at buddy, adj.1
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 204: ‘This is a funny pub,’ I said. ‘See the notices?’ ‘Okay now?’ ‘I ‘m feeling upsydaisy’.
at bugger you! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
[UK] D. Thomas ‘One Warm Saturday’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 211: The child [...] shook a row of buttons down its belly and a line of drops, like piddle in a child’s drawing, between the long legs stuck with shells.
at piddle, n.
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 201: ‘[H]er second daughter’s died in pod.’ ‘Baby girl dead, too,’ said the man at his side.
at in pod (adj.) under pod, n.1
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 197: ‘Got to go to the w. for a breath of fresh air’.
at W, n.2
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Who Do You Wish Was with Us?’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 162: [W]e heard women on an outing call ‘Mutt and Jeff!’ for Ray was tall and thin and I was short.
at mutt and jeff, n.
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Where the Tawe Flows’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 129: Mr Roberts [...] was a collector for an insurance company; they called him in the trade a body-snatcher, and he was known among his friends as Burke and Hare.
at body-snatcher, n.
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Where the Tawe Flows’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 134: Mr Roberts put his hands over his ears. ‘The conversation is getting esoteric,’ he said. ‘Excuse my French!’.
at excuse my French under French, n.
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Who Do You Wish Was with Us?’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 162: [W]e [...] bullied our way through a crowd of day-trippers who waited at the stop of the Gower-bound buses [...] ‘Why can’t those bus lizards walk,’ Ray said. ‘They were born too tired,’ I said.
at -lizard, sfx
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Where the Tawe Flows’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 134: ‘More parsnip?’ ‘It goes down the throat like silk, Mr Evans.’ ‘Like baby’s milk.’ ‘Say when, Mr Roberts’.
at say when under say, v.
[UK] D. Thomas ‘Extraordinary Little Cough’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 100: [O]ld men with backache and young girls in trouble waited for consultations in the half-dark.
at in trouble (adv.) under trouble, n.
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