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[Ire] ‘B. Starke’ Touch and Go 133: She told me she had hitched her way down to New Orleans a week before .
at hitch, v.2
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 150: I’m not worth a tuppenny frig.
at not worth a fuck, phr.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 27: She herself was a Half-and-Half. Her father was Catholic, her mother Protestant.
at half-and-half, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 82: Annie is up to her diddies in debt.
at up to one’s armpits under armpit, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 137: It’s too much like the airforce, you know, rank and promotion, and arse-licking.
at arse-licking (n.) under arse-lick, v.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 98: Peelers and B men do all night out on the beat. My arse on that for a way to put the time in.
at my arse to...! (excl.) under arse, n.
[Ire] (con. 1946) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 178: It wasn’t as if I’d always been a pain in the clinkers to him.
at pain in the arse, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 170: Bucksie, jumping mad as a hornet.
at ...a hornet under mad as..., adj.
[Ire] (con. 1930s) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 35: Why don’t you go out and play with the other kids? Why are you always hanging about the house like a jinny wing?
at jenny-ass, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 227: Chocks away, Hughie.
at chocks away!, excl.
[Ire] S. McAughtry Touch and Go 5: Johnny had saved my bacon a good few times on the HQ campus after piss-up balls-ups.
at save someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 107: I left feeling simultaneously bollocked and praised.
at ballock, v.2
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 170: Does big balls here do the fighting for you?
at big ballocks (n.) under ballocks, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 93: John’s liable to go batchy for ever.
at batchy, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 174: Well, Mister Bighead, we’ve both been there [...] so up yours, you fancy-talking fuckpot.
at big head, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 98: They beat him up and threw him into the Black Maria.
at Black Maria, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 89: What was needed here were signs of blue funk, plus proper appreciation of the majesty of the police.
at blue funk (n.) under blue, adj.1
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 182: The bluebottles were quite friendly.
at bluebottle, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 90: I want you to get into that buckin’ train and get the hell out of buckin’ Dundalk, right?
at bucking, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 51: When you [...] couldn’t drink any more, Mulgrew gave you the bum’s rush.
at bum’s rush, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 154: She likes him [...] Goes the bundle on him.
at go a bundle on (v.) under bundle, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 70: Men were queuing to sign on at the buroo.
at buroo, n.
[Ire] S. McAughtry Touch and Go 7: I sank the whiskey, pretended to punch him on the button, and rose to go.
at button, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 80: You’re on the button there, all right.
at on the button under button, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 194: Land one on the whiskers and have the bastard halfway to bye byes before swinging with the number three iron.
at bye-bye(s), n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 183: I got vitamin injections up the chuff and psychiatric counselling.
at chuff, n.2
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 139: If I ever stood a chance of keeping the job it’s up the chute now.
at up the chute under chute, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 59: Fair enough, in the circs.
at circs, n.
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 114: You fancy me like the clappers.
at like the clappers (adv.) under clappers, n.3
[Ire] (con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 155: Show me your whanger and I’ll tell you what age you are by the number of wrinkles in your clinkers.
at clinkers, n.
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