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[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 50: Blood an’ ’ounds, is that you, Paddy?
at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 64: Shut the door, you bloody So-and-So.
at so-and-so, n.
[Ire] P. Gallagher My Story n.p.: Every one of the Committee [...] would tell it to their women and they would clatter it all over the parish [BS].
at clatter, v.1
[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 104: ‘Damn-but, you are right,’ said Johnny Brown.
at damn-but! (excl.) under damn!, excl.
[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 77: We therefore decided that our flitting should be a moonlight one.
at moonlight flitting, n.
[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 23: When some funny story was told he would go into kinks laughing.
at go into kinks (v.) under kink, n.3
[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 13: I went to Roshine school when I was about seven years. I was not very good at school, although I never ‘lay out’ for a day.
at lie out (v.) under lie, v.1
[Ire] P. Gallagher My Story n.p.: He was a very nice man and absolutely honest, but very near [BS].
at near, adj.
[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 163: As soon as he got to know the circumstances he packed his kit and skinned out.
at skin, v.3
[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 64: I began to get a bit cold, took another slug, began to get warm, slugged it all the third time.
at slug, n.1
[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 64: I began to get a bit cold, took another slug, began to get warm, slugged it all the third time.
at slug, v.1
[Ire] P. Gallagher My Story n.p.: Just say that you heard there was bad stuff in Brennan’s, you know how that Anna one would be snooking for news [BS].
at snook, v.
[UK] P. Gallagher My Story 60: He immediately squared for me although he had not a soul with him, and I had seven or eight lads.
at square up, v.1
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