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Me and My Girl choose

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[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: bill: You might get these trousers altered, they’re too tight under me arms — like me piccolo and flutes.
at piccolo and flute, n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I i: The money – then I’ll mizzle bees and honey.
at bees (and honey), n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: bill: (confronted with the morning’s mail and being informed of one with the Lambeth post-mark) Oh! Let’s have a basinful o’ that!
at basinful, n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: Gimme my Charlie Prescot – that’s my waistcoat – and now my I’m afloat.
at charlie prescott, n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: charles: Daisy roots? bill: My boots!
at daisy roots, n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: charles: And what is a dickey, sir? bill: Shirt wivaht a chassis.
at dicky, n.1
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: Nah gis me titfa and me turtle doves an’ I’ll be on me Edna May.
at turtle (dove), n.2
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: porchester: Why, only this morning I found myself asking my man for a bottle of pig’s ear.
at pig’s (ear), n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: Bill: Nah gis me titfa and me turtle doves an’ I’ll be on me Edna May.
at on one’s Edna May under Edna May, n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I i: My Hat! It was so windy I had to pull it over my gingerbread.
at gingerbread, n.2
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I i: jacqueline: I’m sick of being Hearts of Oak. gerald: Hearts of Oak? jacqueline: Yes – broke.
at heart of oak, adj.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I i: all: Gingerbread? bill: Me lump o’ lead! all: Lump of lead? bill: Me Uncle Ned! all: Uncle Ned? bill: Oh, me ’ead.
at lump of lead, n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: bill: My boots! They ’urt me plates o’ meat. That’s me feet.
at plates (of meat), n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I i: bill: Me lump o’ lead! all: Lump of lead? bill: Me Uncle Ned! all: Uncle Ned? bill: Oh, me ’ead.
at Uncle Ned, n.1
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: bill: Quaker oat. charles: Porridge, sir? bill: Naow! Coat.
at Quaker oat, n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I iii: charles: ’Oller boys ’oller? bill: Oxford scholar! charles: Oxford scholar? bill: The arf-a-dollar! (Charles offers him half-a-crown) bill: Naow – the collar!
at Oxford (scholar), n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I i: charles: The Peckham Rye, Sir? bill: The tie – and you might get these trousers altered.
at Peckham (Rye), n.
[UK] L. Lane Me and My Girl I i: duchess: I hope you enjoyed your drive. bill: Not arf — but I nearly lost my titfa.
at titfer, n.
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