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‘Happy as the Day is Long’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 310: We’d had a hell of a bust-up just before I took ill.at bust-up, n.
‘Happy as the Day is Long’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 310: We’d had a hell of a bust-up just before I took ill. ‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 272: Absolute fact, I knew damn all about it.at damn-all, n.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 277: Sorry to hear about your smash last night [...] It was a bad break.at bad break (n.) under bad, adj.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 290: Baksheesh, that’s all they think about in this country.at baksheesh, n.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 286: The dirty bainchut [...] D’you know what he told me outside?at banchoot, n.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 291: Bags of natives sprawling about the corridors, all chattering to beat the band.at to beat the band (adv.) under band, n.2
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 272: I’d been on a blind in Fenner’s with some of the boys.at blinder, n.3
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 279: In about five minutes, this bloke blew in.at blow in, v.2
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 279: In about five minutes, this bloke blew in, complete with white bum-freezer and smoking a cheroot.at bum freezer (n.) under bum, n.1
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 278: Turpin and Krishnaswami were in cahoots, and Turpin was the pilot-fish.at in cahoots (with) under cahoots, n.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 272: After they’d carted the two coolies off to hospital, the inspector came [...] to see me.at cart, v.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 274: I’ve had the police round wanting to know all about you [...] Course they got no change out of me.at not get any change out of (v.) under change, n.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 276: ‘Won’t they let you have bail?’ ‘A thousand chips.’.at chip, n.2
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 272: There were these coolies pretty badly smashed about.at coolie, n.1
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 273: I’d an awful head and a mouth like a sewer from smoking.at head, n.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 290: He’s shot the moon. Blown off to Bangalore.at shoot the moon (v.) under moon, n.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 284: The sum seems a bit stiff [...] five hundred chips was pretty near a whole month’s screw.at screw, n.1
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 272: Mind you, he was properly sewn-up himself.at sewed up, adj.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 277: I knew Menon slightly: he was a slimy skite and I wouldn’t trust him an inch.at skite, n.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 273: I kept drinking socking great cups of black tea.at socking, adv.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 284: The sum seems a bit stiff [...] five hundred chips was pretty near a whole month’s screw.at stiff, adj.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 289: [We] stopped at a chemist’s shop that had posters up on the walls, outside, advertising cures for siph.at syph, n.
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 278: He’ll be here in a tick.at tick, n.4
‘Y List’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 237: Drilling before breakfast’s a bugger, believe me.at bugger, n.1
‘I Had to Go Sick’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 270: I’d have slept like the dead if Jerry hadn’t dropped a bomb. [...] ‘Bugger it [...] Now we’ll have to go to the trenches.’.at bugger it!, excl.
‘I Had to Go Sick’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 267: ‘And what about my kit.’ ‘That’ll be in the stores, I suppose. Buggered if I know. I’m from another company.’ [...] ‘Buggered if I know when he’ll be back.’.at buggered if I know under buggered, adj.1
‘Y List’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 240: I hoped he wasn’t telling her to have me chucked out.at chuck out, v.
‘Y List’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 151: ‘Hullo Corp,’ he said. I couldn’t hear what Corporal Evans said.at corp, n.1
‘I Had to Go Sick’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 255: ‘Got anything wrong with your leg?’ ‘I’ve got a scar on it, sergeant,’ I told him. ‘Dekko,’ the sergeant said.at dekko, v.
‘I Had to Go Sick’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 268: At last, after a lot of conjecture, we dossed down for the night.at doss down (v.) under doss, v.
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