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The Hamlet of Stepney Green choose

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[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green II ii: bessie: Davey – your sister’s on the line – come and say hello. david: Oh – do me a favour.
at do me a favour, phr.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: The Art Gallery contained no art and the Public Library contained no public, just one or two down-and-outs reading the long newspapers in the racks.
at down-and-out, n.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green II.ii: And once they’re married, Bob’s your uncle.
at bob’s your uncle, phr.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: I always suspected that you had a tidy sum stuck away. Come on, own up, I’m a dying man.
at come on!, excl.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: The taxi game never changes; too many new boys taking it up; they all think it a cushy life; they’ll learn soon enough.
at game, n.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: Anyway – I’m not that hard up – plenty more fish in the sea.
at hard-up, adj.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: I’ve got more than cold feet – I’ve got the screaming willies and the heeby-jeebies multiplied together.
at heebie-jeebies, n.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: All your life you sweat your kishkers out to give them a good education and everything they want and what happens?
at kishkes, n.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green II.ii: I put up with a lot to stop him being a low-life.
at lowlife, n.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green II ii: I don’t like saying this, Bessie, but your boy is meshuga.
at meshuga, adj.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: Anyway – I’m not that hard up – plenty more fish in the sea.
at ...fish in the sea under not the only..., phr.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: No more pie in the sky. You’ve got to support your mother now.
at pie in the sky (n.) under pie, n.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green II ii: No more smoozing me – something has got to happen soon.
at schmooze, v.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: Sam, she drives me mad talking about him... Hava, you’ve got a screw loose.
at a screw loose under screw, n.1
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act III: Wonderful. What a charming boy. He’s really turning out a decent sort.
at sort, n.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: I always suspected that you had a tidy sum stuck away.
at stick away (v.) under stick, v.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act III: Don’t start lecturing me again. We’ve been having a wonderful time. Don’t start getting stuffy now.
at stuffy, adj.1
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: Now if they’d give me a chance on the tele I’d wake them all up.
at telly, n.1
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: I always suspected that you had a tidy sum stuck away.
at tidy, adj.
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green II ii: These are the consumer goods for the frum yids.
at Yid, n.1
[UK] B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green Act I: Who ever heard of it? Yiddisher Spiritualism!... I should like to see you all tapping the table for a change, instead of each other.
at Yiddisher, adj.
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