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They Die with Their Boots Clean choose

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[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 143: For my part I don’t care a tuppenny damn.
at not give a tuppenny damn, v.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 78: Never, definitely never, have I heard such a load of Sweet Fanny Adams as this horrible man comes out with.
at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 2: There lies both scouts with knife-holes in their backs and their rifles and ammo gone.
at ammo, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 129: ‘Gemme a you ’n’ a strike,’ meaning a Cup of You-and-Me and a Slice of Strike-Me-Dead, or bread ’n’ butter.
at you and me, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 88: ‘What’s a Wad?’ ‘Shiver-and-shake. A Cake.’.
at shiver and shake, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 51: I’ll tell you the honest truth [...] This is on the up-and-up.
at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 56: I’ll put any of you inside that I ketch pointing rifles or assing around with bayonets.
at ass around under ass, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 119: Greengage hung on to his bundook and about fifty rounds.
at bandook, n.
[UK] (ref. to early 19C) G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 138: In Wellington’s day [...] we carried the old smooth-bore musket known as Brown bess.
at brown bess, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 2: We’re firing for our lousy old lives, biff! — bosh! — bang! — with the Wogs going down like coconuts.
at biff!, excl.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 3: Poor old Muddy gets one, bip, right in the forehead.
at bip, adv.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 124: ‘You got that blackie!’ [...] ‘In the last round.’.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 2: We rounds the bend and Sergeant Tuck says ‘Blimey’.
at blimey!, excl.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 2: I heard that fellow swear something terrible, blinding and bloodying like a bargee.
at blind, v.2
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 74: Are you sure you don’t mean Water-bloody-loo?
at bloody, adv.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 5: And we comes out, we does, yelling red, white and blue murder.
at blue murder, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 88: ‘What’s Bobbing?’ ‘Oh . . . sort of bobbing; getting nerves, worrying.’.
at bob, v.3
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 1: ‘Is it [i.e. a glass eye] in straight, Dusty?’ [...] ‘A bit bolo.’.
at bolo, adj.1
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 123: ’E fell aht of a pear-tree, and the branches ’ad sort of bopped ’im as ’e come froo ’em.
at bop, v.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 37: John Johnson of Birmingham; of Brummagem, gentlemen, the breeding-ground of the Fly Boys from time immemorial.
at fly-boy, n.1
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 142: War always was war, and when it came down to brass tacks, it was the same as it is now.
at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 4: You don’t get yourself took prisoner by no Wog, not if you use your loaf you don’t.
at use one’s loaf (v.) under loaf (of bread), n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 29: Bullock is a bruiser. He is one of those boxers of whom nobody ever heard.
at bruiser, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 37: John Johnson of Birmingham; of Brummagem, gentlemen, the breeding-ground of the Fly Boys from time immemorial.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 65: You’re a Brummy boy. I can tell by your accent.
at Brummy, adj.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 50: A big buck Jock who would laugh at a bayonet has fainted at the prick of the needle.
at buck, adj.1
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 45: I do not doubt that even then, and there, there was a bucko sergeant who yelled, ‘Order yer arms when you got yer dressing!’.
at bucko, adj.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 187: He gets hold of a buckshee Bren, he does, and he rushes forward firing from the hip.
at buckshee, adj.
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 132: Grouse about regimental bull-and-baloney [...] Go on, grouse!
at bull, n.6
[UK] G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 147: He just done a bunk, and went home.
at do a/the bunk (v.) under bunk, n.1
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