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None But the Lonely Heart choose

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[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 58: ‘Half a mo,’ she says. ‘Where you going?’.
at half a mo, phr.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 121: He’d get learnt a thing or two.
at know a thing or two, v.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 115: You want to see him with his teeth in [...] Fit him a treat, they do.
at treat, a, adv.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 100: Want a spit and a drag, chum?
at spit and a drag, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 65: Putting the morning fag on was a bit of all right.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 132: Don’t start coming the urr er bleeding acid, for Christ’s sake.
at come the (old) acid (v.) under acid, n.2
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 242: Would you bleeding well adam and eve it, eh?
at Adam (and Eve), v.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 301: There’s some afters coming up.
at afters, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 21: The blokes as work there got to draw their rock of ages to get the roast and boiled of a Sunday.
at rock of ages, n.2
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 95: Keep your old North and South sewed up.
at north (and south), n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 253: Come on, shortarse, where’s the doings.
at short-arse, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 301: Did me good to see you putting away that.
at put away, v.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 109: You sloppy lump of half bake, you. You’re walking about half asleep, you are.
at half-bake, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 244: You can’t make a bigger balls than what they done.
at balls-up, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 122: It’s just a way of saying something, like Bob’s Your Uncle, or Have a Banana.
at have a banana! (excl.) under banana, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 93: Sweating like that on a night like this here, you’ll catch your death of double ammonia. Then the band won’t half play. [Ibid.] 129: If you hadn’t let the coppers follow you, [...] we’d be all right. As it is, they’re playing the bloody band all round the house.
at then the band played under band, n.2
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 39: He can take care of His self [...] any time there’s a bit of a barney anywhere.
at barney, n.2
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 281: Out on the bash, are you?
at on the bash under bash, v.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 205: Here’s the Battler. And she don’t know nothing about this neither, see?
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 252: ‘Here we are, bears breath,’ Slush says to some little bloke in a black apron.
at bear’s breath (n.) under bear, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 65: It was a couple of beefy blokes.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 295: Big mouth. That’s all He is.
at bigmouth, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 159: There’s plenty of decent girls knocking about, without getting landed with a bit like that.
at bit, n.1
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 184: I’ll learn you, you little bit of cord.
at bit of cord (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 30: The girl in the swimming costume [...] Lovely drop of stuff, she was, and proper juicy. [Ibid.] 143: She was a right bit of stuff.
at bit of stuff, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 158: Borrowing a couple of bob [...] then blueing it on some woman or other.
at blew, v.2
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 285: Nobody was taking a blind bit of notice.
at blind, adj.2
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 16: You ain’t fell down and broke your blinding neck, have you?
at blinding, adj.2
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 103: Give that there hokey pokey blokey a nice French kiss for me, will you?
at bloke, n.
[UK] R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 116: What the bloody hell is okeebloodydoke when it’s let out for a run?
at bloody, adv.
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