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[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 356: You just play him on, play him on, and at the end of it his litle brain will go bang, because he’s got himelf into such a bloody tiswas.
at all of a tiswas, adj.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 95: And there’s no messin’ at all; they don’t want to know who he is [...] so there’s no argy-bargy.
at no messing (about) under mess about, v.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 355: Even the hard knocks will come across — they wouldn’t tell me who had done this Post Office job, but they would tell me who had attacked a woman.
at come across, v.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 318: This aggro against the policewomen has lifted an awful lot.
at aggro, n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 115: You’re working right from the bread-and-butter stuff [...] right up to the heavy level.
at bread-and-butter, adj.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 230: D-and-Is. They drink until they collapse and that’s the end of it.
at d. and i., n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 229: They tend to be young men with a whiff of the barmaid’s apron, and they go over the top and just make a bloody nuisance of themselves.
at smell of the barman’s apron (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 95: And there’s no messin’ at all; they don’t want to know who he is [...] so there’s no argy-bargy.
at argy-bargy, n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 149: They get three pound for a play-around — y’know, a wank.
at play-around, n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 130: ‘Arson, was it?’ ‘Arsin’ about more like!’.
at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 387: For my first nine years I was on foot patrol on the beat. I was as happy as Harry.
at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 522: Rupert Brooke [...] it always is, when our mate here’s well away.
at well away, adj.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 95: You’ve got to turn up results and, if you do, you’ll get a good backhander off the police.
at back-hander, n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 53: Yes, you get bags of scuffles.
at bags (of), n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 95: If only they knew the ball-aching enquiries involved.
at balls-ache (v.) under balls, n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 359: If you start playin’ away with a bird — and you’re dealing with a big-time villain — forget it. He’s got you bang to rights.
at bang to rights (adv.) under bang, adv.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 39: I jump off the bus and I walk smack-bang into four of ’em.
at slap-bang, adv.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 431: I think soccer hooligans are taking barbits with drink, which makes them very aggressive.
at barbit, n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 81: A great friend of mine joined [the police] and I thought I’d give it a bash.
at bash, n.1
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 311: Next minute there’d be a bloody vanload there, battin’ hell outa yer!
at bat, v.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 497: I had her recommended to me [...] fifteen pound for an hour. She’s on the bloody batter, y’see.
at batter, v.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 319: They just can’t be bothered to go to Family Planning, which is on their beat anyway.
at beat, n.1
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 197: One of them said, ‘But we’re the Beatles!’ I said, ‘If yer don’t fok aff, I’ll put me beetle-crushers on you!’.
at beetle-crusher (n.) under beetle, n.1
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 276: I was put into a CID office and I took to it like a duck to water. I thought it was the bee’s knees.
at bee’s knees, n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 355: There are the big-time fellas you admire for not being cryin’, cringin’, screamin’ belly-achers.
at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 333: Our boxer dog [...] was a belter [...] he’d be snarlin’ and they all backed off.
at belter (n.) under belt, v.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 62: Christ, how many bevvies ’ad you ’ad that time?
at bevvy, n.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 109: The attitude they believe they’re the big-time jack, y’know.
at big-time, adj.
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 229: The one-off drunk. The student who gets his exams off his back and goes out on a one-night blinder.
at blinder, n.3
[UK] J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 440: We’re paid professionals, we’re highly trained, and here we get some hobby bobby wearing the same glorious uniform.
at hobby bobby, n.
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