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Stop It, Whoever You Are choose

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[UK] H. Livings Stop it, Whoever You Are (1962) Act IV: Four years building and nobody thought of that. What did the brickies do?
at brickie, n.
[UK] H. Livings Stop it, Whoever You Are (1962) Act I: I don’t think I’ve ever been so cut.
at cut, adj.2
[UK] H. Livings Stop it, Whoever You Are (1962) Act II: Stop mucking about, it’s home-time now, old maty.
at matey, n.
[UK] H. Livings Stop it, Whoever You Are (1962) Act II: You still get some daft nellie getting all worked up about battles he’s not fighting.
at nellie, n.
[UK] H. Livings Stop it, Whoever You Are (1962) Act II: You’ll see for yourself the sort of thing I have to put up with. It’s not on, you know.
at not on, adj.
[UK] H. Livings Stop it, Whoever You Are (1962) Act I: It’s all his pigeon, you know.
at pigeon, n.2
[UK] H. Livings Stop it, Whoever You Are (1962) Act II: You’d think there’d be somewhere in a works this size where you could skive off for a read of the racing.
at skive, v.
[UK] H. Livings Stop it, Whoever You Are (1962) Act I: I’ll do a full-page article on you, and sod ’em.
at sod, v.
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