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Events while Guarding the Bofors Gun choose

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[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II ii: I said do me no favours [...] report away. I couldn’t give a monkey’s fart.
at not care a fart, v.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I i: Here, he’s having a crafty J. Arthur.
at J. Arthur (Rank), n.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I iii: You filthy-minded basket, go to sleep.
at basket, n.2
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II i: They’re on the bevvy, mate.
at bevvy, n.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I iii: He got black drunk.
at black, adj.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I iii: You’re sitting there cacking yourself because you thought I was a bloody Orderly Officer, aren’t you?
at cack, v.1
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I iii: Where are they, anyway, the rotten cackbags?
at cackbag (n.) under cack, n.2
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I i: I know a bloke who saved up chitties for seven thousand cheap fags.
at chitty, n.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II ii: If you report me, you’ve crapped it, haven’t you? You’ve failed to keep a grip on your little guard [...] you have blotted your copybook.
at crap it (v.) under crap, v.2
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I i: Let’s do for him, the kind-hearted gobshite.
at do for, v.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun 15: Let’s drop the bastard in it.
at drop someone in it (v.) under drop, v.1
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II i: If you imagine [...] that either of those two rotten gobshites will think any better of you, you’re dreaming.
at gobshite, n.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I iii: I’ve been on the bevvy, but I’m not jarred.
at jarred, adj.1
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I iii: I’d like a nice fat tart with a wobbly jelly-roll and a mind like a Cairo sewer.
at jelly roll, n.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II ii: Youre just making a mess in your trousers in case they find out about you.
at mess, n.2
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I iii: What, do O’Rourke’s bash while he sits pouring Guiness down him, – not on your smelly nelly.
at not on your nellie, phr.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I ii: Nosebag-time, Gunner Rowe.
at nosebag, n.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I iii: They’ll all be paralytic in the Naffi.
at paralytic, adj.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II ii: (He stops and looks at the bayonet, which is still on the end of his rifle.) Pig-sticker!
at pigsticker, n.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II i: Them two get paralytic plastered in the rotten bloody Nafi, miss their tour and run beserk.
at plastered, adj.1
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I i: Bloody hell he’s got syphylitic teeth [...] Here — how do you manage to catch pox there.
at pox, n.1
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I i: Ah, rot off, Fritz.
at rot off! (excl.) under rot!, excl.1
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II ii: Ah, rot off.
at rot off! (excl.) under rot!, excl.1
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II ii: You’ll have to stay out here, like all us poor bastards, until January nineteen fifty rotten six.
at rotten, adj.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II i: You’re just shit-scared, you’re like a frightened little lad, who wants to run home to his mammy.
at shit-scared, adj.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun I iii: Stupid bloody swede. Take no notice.
at swede, n.
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