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[UK] P. Larkin ‘Vers de Société’ in High Windows 35: You’d care to join us? In a pig’s arse, friend.
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Going, Going’ in High Windows 22: Before I snuff it, the whole / Boiling will be bricked in / Except for the tourist parts.
at whole boiling lot, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Sympathy in White Major’ High Windows 11: A brick, a trump, a proper sport.
at brick, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Vers de Société’ in High Windows 35: My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps / To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps.
at crap, n.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Posterity’ in High Windows 27: I’m stuck with this old fart at least a year.
at fart, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Livings’ in High Windows 37: A beer-marquee that / Half-screens a canvas Gents.
at gents, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Sympathy in White Major’ High Windows 11: I drop four cubes of ice / Chimingly in a glass, and add / Three goes of gin.
at go, n.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘The Card-Players’ in High Windows 23: Jan turns back and farts / Gobs at the grate, and hits the queen of hearts.
at gob, v.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Livings’ in High Windows 15: Why is Judas like Jack Ketch?
at Jack Ketch, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Livings’ High Windows 15: Our butler Starveling piles the logs / And sets behind the screens a jordan / (Quicker than going to the bogs).
at jordan, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Posterity’ in High Windows 27: Not out of kicks or something happening – / One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys.
at kicks, n.3
[UK] P. Larkin ‘High Windows’ in High Windows 17: When I see a couple of kids / And guess he’s fucking her and she’s / Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm.
at kid, n.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Livings’ in High Windows 13: Who makes ends meet, who’s taking the knock, / Government tariffs, wages, price of stock.
at take the knock (v.) under knock, n.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘The Old Fools’ in High Windows 19: You keep on pissing yourself, and can’t remember.
at piss oneself, v.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Show Saturday’ in High Windows 37: For each scene is linked by spaces / [...] where kids scrap, freed, / While their owners stare different ways with incurious faces.
at scrap, v.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Livings’ in High Windows 40: And however you bank your screw, the money you save / Won’t in the end buy you more than a shave.
at screw, n.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Posterity’ in High Windows 27: Just let me put this bastard on the skids, / I’ll get a couple of semesters leave.
at on the skids under skids, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Going, Going’ in High Windows 22: Then before I snuff it, the whole / Boiling will be bricked in / Except for the tourist parts.
at snuff it (v.) under snuff, v.2
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Livings’ High Windows 13: A sound / Of dominoes from the Bar. I stand a round.
at stand, v.2
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Sympathy in White Major’ in High Windows 11: Straight as a die, one of the best.
at straight as a die under straight, adj.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Old Fools’ High Windows 19: They’ve always behaved as if they were crippled or tight.
at tight, adj.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Sympathy in White Major’ High Windows 11: A brick, a trump, a proper sport.
at trump, n.2
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