![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland")
Sun. Post (Lanarks.) 1 Aug. 6/7: The usual public impression gleaned from the cinema and yarns of the ‘penny-dreadful’ species.at penny dreadful (n.) under penny, n.
Sun. Post (Lanarks.) 1 Aug. 6/7: The usual public impression gleaned from the cinema and yarns of the ‘penny-dreadful’ species. Sun. Post (Dundee) 4 Mar. 10/3: Soapy, as pleased as a dog with two tails.at pleased as a dog with two cocks, phr.
Sun. Post 29 May 8/5: No Beerocracy! [...] Surely Mr Lloyd George’s Government has enough things to do [...] without attempting to form a new beerocracy.at beerocracy (n.) under beer, n.
Sun. Post 11 Apr. 9/2: They cast nasturtiums upon the perfectly good hat I wore.at cast nasturtiums (v.) under cast, v.
Sun. Post 28 Mar. 1/4: Mr Lloyd George was compelled by his Tory friends to eat the leek.at eat the leek (v.) under eat, v.
Sun. Post (Dundee) 4 Apr. 3/5: The nation got tired of that sort flim-flam game.at flim-flam, adj.
Sun. Post 23 Jan. 8/3: Who was it killed the goose / That golden eggs did lay? / Illingworth played the deuce, / With the 'oof bird' men say.at oof-bird (n.) under oof, n.
Sun. Post (Lanarks) 24 July 5/1: [headline] Swindlers Scoop the Pool.at scoop the pool (v.) under scoop, v.
Sun. Post 10 May 9/2: ‘Hullo, Hen,’ he said.at hen, n.
Sun. Post 23 May 9/4: Watchman Bluff Scares Burglars. Strange experinece of ‘Bond Street Charlie’.at charlie, n.1
Sun. Post 21 Feb. 13/3: The bold little bustle is douing its ‘durnedest’ toget back into favour [...] It has got itself worn by several weary mannequins.at do one’s darnedest (v.) under darned, adj.
Sun. Post (Lanarks) 4 Apr. 8/3: Now what, by the holy Mike, did this discovery portend?at holy Moses! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
Sun. Post 28 Dec. 8/1: The brass-hat who isn’t brass-necked enough to demand the things his men have a right to isn’t worth his cross-swords on his shoulder.at brass-neck, adj.
Sun. Post 17 Aug. 1/2: [picture caption] Getting ready to give Fritz fits. Mermber of well-known regiment [...] during bayonet practice.at give someone fits (v.) under fit, n.3
Sunday Post 3 May 15/2: The soldier [...] is willing ‘to bet his pants,’ woollen, long, that the man on the left of the picture is [etc.].at bet one’s buttons (v.) under bet, v.
Sun. Post 22 Feb. 8/5: Get the skipper to allow you to shave off that face fungus of yours.at face fungus (n.) under face, n.
Sun. Post (Dundee) 4 Jan. 9/1: Rationing has brought out the food-dilcher, meanest thief of 'em all.at filcher, n.
Sun. Post (Lanarks) 22 Mar. 6/2: All this is sandwiched ’twixt glamour-oomph-gal leg-shows, songs and dances.at glamour boy (n.) under glamour, adj.
Sun. Post (Lanarks) 1 Mar. 6/2: He meets saloon glamour gal Joan bennett.at glamour boy (n.) under glamour, adj.
Sun. Post (Lanarks) 5 July 3/1: Service men on leave have a grouse. Too often they get the icy mitt from a local shopkeeper.at frozen mitt (n.) under mitt, n.
Sun. Post 25 July 8/5: Button Your Flap —A terse naval way of saying ‘Be quiet’.at button one’s lip, v.
Sun. Post (Lanarks.) 9 May 7/5: Grandpa called it collywobbles [...] Today the word is ‘gastritis’.at collywobbles, n.
Sun. Post 7 Feb. 18/4: Service Slang [...] Sparrow start — Very early.at sparrow-fart, n.1
Sun. Post (Lanarks.) 3 Sept. 3/2: [headline] ‘Completely Mad’ Nazis are Bitter-Enders.at bitter-ender, n.
Sun. Post (Lanarks) 19 Nov. 2/3: Shipping shares have for the present gone off the boil, but Cundards held 21s 9d.at go off the boil (v.) under boil, n.
Sun. Post (Lanarks.) 21 May 2/1: Two little boys were gazing in the window of a Glasgow shop where peaches were priced at 10s 6d each. [...] One little fellow exclaimed— ‘Crivens!’.at crivens!, excl.
Sun. Post (Lanarks.) 4 June 3/4: ‘By crivens,’ he mused. ‘Hamilton’s been dashed good to me — on the whole!’.at crivens!, excl.
Sun. Post 9 Jan. 6/4: ‘The fruits of victory,’ Goebbels says, / ‘Are ours.’ Yet no one cares. / Fritz, downcast, and in a daze, / Just murmers — ‘Hunny pears!’.at Hun, adj.
Sun. Post (Lanarks.) 26 Aug. 11/5: [He] misjudged the bounce of the ball, foozled as he reached for it, and dropped it.at foozle, v.
Sun. Post (Lanarks.) 18 Nov. 4/2: A double-decker bus stopped. the conductress shouted ‘One only please!’ Man and dog got on, but the conductress rebuked him. ‘I said one only!’ Man and dog got off, man shouting, ’Stick the bus up your jumper!’.at stick it up your jumper! (excl.) under stick it!, excl.
load more results