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‘Sea Constables’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 32: Cordelia—that Southampton ketch that old Jarrott fitted with oil auxiliaries for a family cruiser last summer. She’s a beamy bus, but she can roll.at bus, n.2
‘Sea Constables’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 32: Cordelia—that Southampton ketch that old Jarrott fitted with oil auxiliaries for a family cruiser last summer. She’s a beamy bus, but she can roll. ‘Sea Constables’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 30: Didn’t care what he hugged, so long as I could lie behind him and give him first chop at any mines that were going.at first chop, n.
‘Sea Constables’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 26: Winchmore, the youngest, was more on the lines of the conventional pre-war ‘nut.’.at knut, n.
‘A Friend of the Family’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 312: He caught it all right. The tribunal wasn’t takin’ any the day he went up.at not having any, phr.
‘A Madonna of the Trenches’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 242: Suppose we face Bogey instead of giving him best every time.at give someone best (v.) under best (of it), n.
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 158: One o’ them blue-bellied Bolshies of postwar Police (neglectin’ point-duty, as usual) asked us to flirt a little quieter.at bluebelly, n.
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 158: One o’ them blue-bellied Bolshies of postwar Police (neglectin’ point-duty, as usual) asked us to flirt a little quieter.at bolshie, n.
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 149: He’d been a toff by birth; but that never showed till he was bosko absoluto. Mere bein’ drunk on’y made a common ’ound of ’im.at bosky, adj.
‘The Janeites’ Debits and Credits (1926) 173: ‘Goes on a bust, d’you mean?’ ‘’Im! He’s no more touched liquor than ’e ’as women since ’e was born.’.at on a bust under bust, n.
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 157: Macklin used to chip me about bein’ an ’air-dresser. ’E could pass remarks, too!at chip, v.1
‘A Madonna of the Trenches’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 253: If a Runner starts noticin’ such things he’d better chuck.at chuck, v.2
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 164: ’Ammick put me through all the Janeite Degrees, you might say. Never ’ad such a doin’ in my life.at doing, n.
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 157: He put it about that our B.S.M. had run a dope an’ dolly-shop with a Chinese woman.at dollyshop, n.
‘A Friend of the Family’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 313: Those ducks on the bench, who had turned down Bert, noddin’ and smilin’ at Margetts, all full of his cabbage and green pea.at duck, n.1
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 166: We copped it. In the neck.at get it in the neck, v.
‘A Madonna of the Trenches’ Debits and Credits (1926) 259: ‘He’ll go off the handle in a second.’ ‘No, he won’t. It’s the last kick-up before it takes hold. I know how the stuff works.’.at kick-up, n.
‘The Janeites’ Debits and Credits (1926) 159: One of ’em was a curate—the Reverend Collins—always on the make an’ lookin’ to marry money.at on the make under make, n.2
‘Prophet and the Country’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 189: The Red Indians who [...] sold ’emselves and their heritage for the Firewater of the Paleface.at paleface, n.
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 169: ’Eaven knows what sort o’ push they was—little boys mostly.at push, n.
‘A Madonna of the Trenches’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 256: You can shop me for a lunatic to-morrow, but I saw it.at shop, v.1
‘A Friend of the Family’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 309: ‘You’ll get over ’em in three hundred years or so—if you’re allowed to last so long.’ ‘Who’s going to stoush us?’ Orton asked fiercely.at stoush, v.
‘A Madonna of the Trenches’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 258: That tore it, d’ye see? As long as I could think, I had kep’ tellin’ myself it was like those things you lectured about at Arras [...] the Angels of Mons, and so on. But that wire tore it.at tear it (v.) under tear, v.
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 158: The dairyman’s son ’ad done time on Jordan with camels.at do time (v.) under time, n.
‘A Friend of the Family’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 316: So, you see, the bettin’ was even on my drawin’ a V.C. or getting Number Umpty rest-camp or — a firing party before breakfast.at umpty, adj.
‘A Madonna of the Trenches’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 247: He wangled me into ’is Platoon when I went out.at wangle, v.
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 150: ‘It was a wop too: ’ead-on — like this!’ And he slapped his tactful little forehead to show what a knock it had been.at whop, n.
‘The Janeites’ in Debits and Credits (1926) 174: The only thing ’e stuck to was to get back to ’is old crowd. Gawd knows ’ow ’e worked it, but ’e did.at work it (v.) under work, v.
‘The Janeites’ Debits and Credits (1926) 167: The man was vi’lently sick an’ conked out.at conk (out), v.
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