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[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 195: ‘I hear Nosseross was drunk.’ ‘Drunk as a coot. Poor old Nosseross!’.
at drunk as a cootie, adj.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 249: Chisel, chisel, chisel, without a tuppeny damn’s worth of thought to your credit.
at not matter a tuppenny (damn), v.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 163: So I starts playing about; [...] tickling him, and all that Fanny Adams.
at fanny adams, n.2
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 31: Is Bielinsky going to waste good money suing you when you got damn all to lose.
at damn-all, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 28: Go to ’ell! Take a ball-o’-chalk!
at ball of chalk, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 5: The shooting gallery attendant remarked to one of the pin-table barkers, ‘Says ’e can get me on the films!’.
at barker, n.1
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 88: Anybody would think I was asking you to go on the bash.
at on the bash under bash, v.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 169: Why not get a flat for afternoons [...] Do some indoor bashing.
at bashing, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 166: In the family way, that’s where it got me; and then I had to batter for a few quid.
at batter, v.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 21: You know, when people call your wife your ‘better half’ there’s something in it.
at better half, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 200: You wanna be a big noise. All right, I got a proposition.
at big noise (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 268: The thin man threw three queens. ‘Three bitches’, he said.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 73: You tells anybody you just wants any sort of job, blimey that means nuffink.
at blimey!, excl.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 94: Blue means misery: ‘I’m feeling blue’; but red means having a good time, making whoopee: ‘Let’s paint the town red’.
at blue, adj.1
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 36: Was he wearing a little-tiny ruby-and-diamond tiepin, worth, maybe, fifteen bob.
at bob, n.3
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 167: So pick the bones out of that.
at pick the bones out of that under bone, n.1
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 5: I left the booze racket for the movie business.
at booze, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 76: The sodden nausea of the drunkard’s dawn; heavy blue boozers’ gloom; the sickness of stale air.
at boozer, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 122: Listen, Bozo, d’you want to make a thousand pounds a week?
at bozo, n.1
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 169: Well, you can use your loaf a bit.
at use one’s loaf (v.) under loaf (of bread), n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 199: Okay, then, I start a bottle party with this bride.
at bride, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 51: All the same, brother, you know what dirty minds some people have.
at brother, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 28: I offer you half a quid [...] You’re bust and you won’t take it.
at bust, adj.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 241: The bloody street’s alive with busies.
at busy, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 53: Pay, and I keep my lip buttoned.
at button one’s lip, v.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 263: Harry’s been carrying on with some tart from Phil Nosseross’ club.
at carry on, v.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 169: He only married her for her money, and she got it going caso.
at go caso (v.) under case, n.3
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 169: There was a woman used to have a club [...] Some people used to call her Caso Maggie. She got her money out of girls, if anybody did.
at caseo, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 176: They’re pinching all the tarts, and they’re lumbering all the Johnny Ronces.
at Charlie Ronce, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Night and the City 120: Listen, I got four choppers outside, with tommy-guns.
at chopper, n.1
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