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Soothing Music for Stray Cats choose

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[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 61: He stood there in this arse of a pose – big cheesy, waxy grin there frozen onto his chops.
at arse of a... (n.) under arse, n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 24: I thought I might sound like an arse, and I felt myself blush.
at arse, n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 104: My very first breakfast in the Big Smoke: bread and some dosey-arsed-excuse for butter.
at dozey-arsed, adj.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 15: So there he was, in a hole, with an a-hole job, in some fuck-wit city.
at arsehole, adj.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 50: Arsy waiters in general, Welsh traffic cops in particular, and traffic wardens everywhere, three sets of miserable fuckers. [Ibid.] 93: He looked about forty, tall, snooty [...] He asked what I meant by that? Sure, like he was in a position to get arsy!
at arsey, adj.2
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 173: He looked a right sorry arse.
at sorry-ass, adj.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 26: They made announcements, some sort of problem [...] they’d give us more information as it came to them, bollocks they would.
at ballocks!, excl.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 11: And just what the fuck was going through Jim’s stupid bastard head?
at bastard, adj.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 41: I was [...] to head off to the Big Smoke.
at Big Smoke, n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 10: She’d passed away. The big ‘C’ as people call it.
at big C, n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 11: Yeah, I reckon we’d just turned eighteen the last time we met, thirty-bleedin-five this year.
at bleeding, adj.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 79: I thought, blimey, this bleeder’s older than me.
at blimey!, excl.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 70: I’d been to Soho loads of times [...] and managed to have a perfectly boss time.
at boss, adj.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 188: I figured I might ‘broach’ the subject over brekkie.
at brekkie, n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 54: He got dead cross and said [...] that what he wanted was a buttie.
at butty, n.2
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 62: While all that stuff feels buzzy at that time, like I said, it’s a heap of shit.
at buzzy, adj.3
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 124: Suspicious to the last, and like a total ole bastard I asks, ‘You guys been casing the joint?’.
at case the joint (v.) under case, v.1
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 161: I see, China plate – mate. I got it!
at china (plate), n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 43: A pack of ciggies, usually ten No. 6; and a box of matches.
at ciggie, n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 64: Smoking cigarettes looks pretty cool, whereas shoving coke up yer snout, well, that’s just plain nasty.
at coke, n.1
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 48: It was a shame about the cruddy buildings.
at cruddy, adj.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 77: Then Fat added that I was a right wanker and had been cruising for a smackin’.
at cruising for (a) bruising under cruise, v.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 90: Some Richard Ashcroft too, defo [...] boss stuff.
at deffo, adv.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 42: No one knows what shite passes through your head, so long as you’re not dick enough [...] to splat it in an email.
at dick, adj.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 67: The thing is I do ‘do’ fats, so it was a bit irritating.
at do, v.1
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 84: I figured my dog-meat brain must have experienced a kind of ‘overload,’ a sort of system shutdown.
at dog’s meat, n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 45: I call her Doris, though that isn’t her name, its just what I called her that first night on account of her behaving like one, a right Doris.
at Doris, n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 140: There I was stuck with a total doughnut.
at doughnut, n.2
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 180: I felt like a right e-jit.
at eejit, n.
[UK] J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 35: No flies on you, Nan.
at no flies on..., phr.
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