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[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 37: ARE YOU AN ALSO RAN?
at also-ran, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love and Hunger 197: Later on I was sick as a dog.
at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love and Hunger 23: Playfair’s been raising ruddy hell. Gave me a god-awful rolluxing Monday.
at God-awful, adj.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 48: ‘Bad Show,’ I said. ‘Damn bad show.’.
at bad show! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 23: Playfair’s been raising ruddy hell. Gave me a god-awful rolluxing Monday.
at ballocking, n.2
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 95: The bastard made a balls of it.
at make a balls of (v.) under balls-up, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 33: Ain’t had a bastard smoke all day. Not a bastard.
at bastard, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 43: Scruffy little beast, shiny blue suit, looked pretty shady all told.
at beast, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 48: Went out to Egypt. On the staff. Just one long binge-up. Best time he ever had in his life.
at binge, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 137: Still, she was a nice bit.
at bit, n.1
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 207: Join the bleeding army! We’ll all be shoved in the bleeder ’fore the month’s out, never mind about joining it.
at bleeder, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 207: ‘That right, mate?’ ‘Too bleeding true.’.
at bleeding, adj.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 138: Smiler never gave me a blind bit of help.
at blind, adj.2
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love and Hunger 24: What’s the time? God save us. Three o-bloody-clock.
at bloody, adv.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 117: I’m not a bolshy.
at bolshie, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 8: You’d think women’d jump at the chance of having their carpets cleaned buckshee.
at buckshee, adj.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 184: Matey’d taken one look at the map and buggered off towards his bike.
at bugger off, v.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 49: Didn’t do too well though. They gave him the bullet.
at give someone the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 140: There’s a cert sale there, if I go about it right.
at cert, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 170: I made a bolt for the exit. I hoped to Christ Sukie hadn’t played another double shuffle on me.
at to Christ under Christ, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 136: Peter’s chucked, you see, and now we’ve no one to make up the party.
at chuck, v.2
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 116: Dead-pan geezer in a white coat calling the numbers. 90, top of the House. 66, clickety-click.
at clickety-click, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 103: They’re all right so long’s you don’t let ’em come the old bag. One o’ mine’d been getting me nothing but duds all week.
at come the (old) bag (v.) under come the..., v.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 138: Don’t be took in by him. He’s a right cowson.
at cowson, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 10: He was dead-set on showing-off his wife to me.
at dead set on (adj.) under dead set, adj.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 9: [of a door-to-door vacuum salesman] ‘How many dems d’you get today?’ ‘Five. Two of ’em duds.’.
at demo, n.1
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love and Hunger 108: Kicked up a deuce of a row and seemed likely to fall to bits any minute.
at deuce, the, phr.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 152: I won some money on the diddler.
at diddler (machine) (n.) under diddler, n.2
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 45: The big do was going on upstairs [...] The tables were laid for tea.
at do, n.
[UK] J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 73: ‘Oh come in,’ she said, ‘You dope,’ and smiled briliantly at me.
at dope, n.2
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