1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 116: He knocked back his whisky and ordered another.at knock back, v.
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 25: He was wearing a leather jerkin, flannel bags and heavy brogues.at bags, n.2
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 60: A success story [...] without the sex appeal, sob stuff or ballyhoo.at ballyhoo, n.
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 105: An out-of-work all-in wrestler or just a barfly.at bar-fly, n.
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 45: A little barrel of a man with a large black hat.at barrel, n.1
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 30: He’s a waiter, like me, but lucky. Got a girl who goes out ‘on the bash’ for him.at on the bash under bash, v.
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 43: ‘Back to the Battle of Waterloo, lidy,’ he says sharply, and she returns sheepishly to the end of the line!at battle of Waterloo, n.
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 66: Someone told me he was a big pot in Whitehall.at big pot, n.
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 49: Another Lad is ‘Biff,’ who talks big [...] about the money he is earning.at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 102: Glad to hear you’re in the big time, Joe [...] Don’t suppose you’d miss a tenner.at big time, n.1
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 121: ‘Snow birds,’ the women who introduce ‘friends’ on commission to dope-peddlers.at snow bird, n.2
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 25: He chuckled, with his usual mixture of blarney and shrewd common sense.at blarney, n.1
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 78: A blimpish brigadier with a Poona manner.at blimpish (adj.) under blimp, n.1
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 63: If you spend any length of time in Soho, the same faces are apt to bob up.at bob up (v.) under bob, v.3
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 30: I got a room in Frith Street. Fifteen bob a week.at bob, n.3
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 113: The boys are deciding if you are a ‘bogey’ (copper).at bogey, n.1
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 94: Should he prefer to ‘shoot the bones’ (play dice) his light-fingered friends can palm a loaded set.at bones, n.1
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 121: Around the bars are to be found ‘broadsmen’ (exponents of the three-card trick).at broadsman (n.) under broads, n.
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 113: His jacket is a long bum-warmer, hand stitched.at bum-warmer (n.) under bum, n.1
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 57: We have burned up headlines often before but this is the biggest front-page sensation of all.at burn up, v.
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 114: He has probably had sausage and mash in a Soho ‘caff’.at caf, n.
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 18: I have [...] caned my liver with gallons of hooch.at cane, v.
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 109: ’Frisco is following a dead cert at the White City.at dead cert (n.) under cert, n.
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 109: ’Frisco drinks with everyone, wisecracks [...] bandies chaff in the argot of a dozen capitals.at chaff, n.1
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 99: A lanky young fellow [...] grins good-humouredly when chaffed about the gingerish beard he is growing.at chaff, v.
1946 S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 94: He hasn’t a Chinaman’s chance of winning at one of these parties.at Chinaman’s chance, n.
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 48: A little chap with a squint and a bow tie offered his sax for sale.at chap, n.
1946 S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 101: Those who want to relax can play billiards or cards but [...] the most popular game is ‘chewing the rag’.at chew the rag, v.