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[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 9: It was like being in one of those arty-farty movies where everything is shot from unusual angles.
at arty-farty, adj.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 97: I can’t believe that they would turn the whole show over to another writer [...] It’s my baby.
at baby, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 155: She’d already bagged the master bedrooom.
at bag, v.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 12: There’s no bally reason why the knee should be giving you any more pain.
at bally, adj.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 81: To be frank, you and Jake have us over a barrel on this one.
at have someone over a barrel (v.) under barrel, n.1
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 51: Hey, it’s no big deal, Tubby, I’m not in love with you or anything.
at no big deal, phr.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 164: I suppose this is what disc-jockeys call a blast from the past.
at blast from the past (n.) under blast, n.1
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 69: The BBC show bombed.
at bomb, v.2
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 44: It wasn’t exactly a bombshell.
at bombshell, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 107: There’s no sex in it – no bonking, I mean.
at bonking, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 20: More likely than not you don’t spot it and some clever dick behind you nudges you in the kidneys.
at clever dick, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 61: ‘Cracking programme the other night,’ said the milkman.
at cracking, adj.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 22: They may be producing crap, acting in crap, writing crap, but they try and make it perfect crap.
at crap, n.1
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 71: You don’t get any dirt if you don’t dish some yourself.
at dirt, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 71: You don’t get any dirt if you don’t dish some yourself.
at dish (out/up) the dirt (v.) under dirt, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 14: I gave him an earful about the knee.
at give an earful (v.) under earful, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 91: Those were the days, Philip, eh?
at eh?, phr.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 31: I’ll go back to bed and see if I can get a few hours’ kip before sparrowfart.
at sparrow-fart, n.1
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 74: Sometimes you get a party from an old people’s home who are too gaga to follow the plot.
at gaga, adj.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 15: If you ask me, Karl is on to a good thing.
at good thing, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 51: Yep, how does that grab you, Mr Passmore?
at how does that grab you? under grab, v.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 214: My knee was giving me gyp.
at give someone gyp (v.) under gyp, n.2
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 214: More likely something to do with Egypt, as in ‘gyppy tummy’.
at gyppy tummy, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 3: The Before You Leave The Flat hit-list that Sally had written out and stuck on the fridge door.
at hit list (n.) under hit, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 27: He’s certainly got the tackle. I saw him in the showers the other day. It must be a ten-incher.
at inch, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 94: I managed to produce a spurt of jism.
at jism, n.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 36: A ride in any kind of car was a rare treat [...] I remember Maureen going into kinks when my Uncle Bert took us to Brighton one bank holiday in his old pre-war Singer.
at go into kinks (v.) under kink, n.3
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 31: I’ll go back to bed and see if I can get a few hours’ kip before sparrowfart.
at kip, n.1
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 280: Don’t let me catch you kipping in this doorway again. Understand?
at kip, v.
[UK] D. Lodge Therapy (1996) 110: When it was a runaway success she was pleased [...] for the sake of the lolly.
at lolly, n.4
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