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The Hole in the Wall choose

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[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 67: With bright handkerchiefs over their shoulder – belcher yellows and kingsmen and blue billies.
at belcher, n.1
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 187: The dark was closing on him fast. ‘Blind man’s holiday,’ muttered Dan Ogle.
at blind man’s holiday (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 67: With bright handkerchiefs over their shoulder – belcher yellows and kingsmen and blue billies.
at blue billy (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 144: I’ll give it you same as Bob Kipps got it – s’elp me I will! I’ll give you the chive.
at chiv, n.1
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 42: Unsolvent. Cracked up. Broke. Busted, in a common way o’ speakin’.
at cracked up, adj.1
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 148: Damme, I don’t want to stay – not me.
at damme!, excl.
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 70: She’s hypotenused, Cap’en Kemp; pawned, as you might say; up the flue.
at in the flue under flue, n.1
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 67: With bright handkerchiefs over their shoulder – belcher yellows and kingsmen and blue billies.
at kingsman, n.
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 24: I knowed you make a plucked ’un.
at plucked ’un (n.) under pluck, n.1
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 194: ‘Ay, ay, sir!’ the man would answer, and humbly return to his pot.
at pot, n.1
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 31: I want my reg’lars out o’ that lot.
at regulars, n.
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 119: Yes, the rope, Cap’en Kemp, as you know well enough; the rope at Newgate Gaol.
at rope, n.
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 203: Nobody knew better the common sailor-man’s horror of complications and ‘land-shark’ troubles ashore.
at land shark (n.) under shark, n.
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 24: But Lord! what a pluck for a shaver!
at shaver, n.1
[UK] A. Morrison Hole in the Wall (1947) 145: Proper reg’lars on all that, paid square, ’ud be more’n I could make playin’ the snitch.
at snitch, n.1
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