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Independent on Sunday choose

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[UK] Indep. on Sun. 17 Mar. 🌐 It’s brittle toffee made with golden syrup, brown sugar [...] and bicarbonate of soda. I’m sorry to say that my children thought it was the end .
at end, the, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 9 Mar. n.p.: Yeh little git. You told me you wanted to write your bleedin’ memoirs, and I believed you, didn’t I? Foolish ate-your-bun dat I am.
at ate-your-bun, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 9 Mar. n.p.: He vardied the cell. Saw the paper figures for the first time [BS].
at varda, v.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Rev. 26 July 52: I was only 16, just out of school, didn’t know my arse from my elbow.
at not know one’s arse/ass from one’s elbow (v.) under arse, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Culture 11 Oct. 9: Only a right pair of girl’s blouses could be shocked.
at big girl’s blouse (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 11 Oct. 32: There is also a young lady [...] she is either Mrs Gruber or an upmarket brass.
at brass, n.2
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 12 Oct. 13: Many users taking six or seven buttons a day. [...] On the streets of the South African townships mandrax tablets are known as ‘buttons’.
at button, n.1
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 11 Oct. 32: He always does this when Maureen’s out and he’s a bit lit up.
at lit (up), adj.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 12 Oct. 13: The pill [was] marketed on the street...as ‘downers’ and known by the nickname ‘Mandies’.
at mandy, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 26 July 27: Being resourceful Nineties kids, they nick the dentist’s credit cards instead.
at nick, v.1
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Culture 11 Oct. 9: With their perpetual drunkenness, big arms, and talk of twatting poofs.
at twat, v.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 12 Oct. 13 : Buttons [...] often crushed into a cannabis joint called a white pipe.
at white pipe (n.) under white, adj.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Travel 18 July 4: Is the Pope a Catholic?
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Rev. 20 June 30: Buggering about a woman’s life, smashing her hopes.
at bugger about, v.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Culture 11 July 4: ‘I wanted to do it for the girls,’ she says. ‘Warts and all.’.
at warts and all, phr.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Real Life 21 Nov. 3: I think my answer was that ‘I should coco’.
at I should cocoa under coffee and cocoa, v.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Real Life 20 June 5: The same quick-witted smart-arse who foraged in Fergie’s fridge?
at smart-arse, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 11 July 23: The prevailing wisdom among senior management was ‘Good goods sell arse-upwards’.
at arse upwards under arse, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Culture 15 Aug. 5: Lovable rogue, irresistable smoothie, gentlemanly cad.
at smooth article, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Culture 25 July 3: Nothing too artsy-fartsy, you understand.
at artsy-fartsy, adj.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Culture 26 Sept. 9: Air-kissing and ass-kissing and general falseness and fakery.
at ass-kissing, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Real Life 18 July 3: From the busker to the Prime Minister, almost every man seems to own his own axe. The venerable Fender Stratocaster has taken on the status of iconic, classic furniture.
at axe, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Real Life 31 Oct. 5: A foul-tempered, mother-hating, back-talking, tit-growing little alien.
at back-talking, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Culture 26 Sept. 3: Sorry, but I’ve already bagged it.
at bag, v.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Rev. 21 Feb. 6: Pushing things all around just so as you can talk this ballocks.
at ballocks, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Real Life 20 June 5: The sight of ballsy Ruby stumbling in chains.
at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Rev. 21 Feb. 6: She had me bang to rights.
at bang to rights (adv.) under bang, adv.
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Rev. 20 June 57: It’s been a barrel of laughs.
at barrel, n.1
[UK] Indep. on Sun. 5 Sept. 26: We’re off to the Ivy for a slap-up beano.
at beano, n.1
[UK] Indep. on Sun. Real Life 1 Aug. 5: Travelling around America in a beat-up pick-up truck.
at beat-up, adj.
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