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The Fowler Family Business choose

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[UK] J. Meades Fowler Family Business 75: I mean it’s like, y’know [...] Pope shits in the woods.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[UK] J. Meades Fowler Family Business 78: Lots of scoff and lots of boff.
at boff, n.1
[UK] J. Meades Fowler Family Business 74: Do we know the identity of the bum bandit who has copped the wad?
at bum bandit (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] J. Meades Fowler Family Business 211: I shall never be able to address the woman who pretended to have given me life with such justified hatred as I did Naomi in my last letter to her. ‘Darling Oven Dodger . . .’.
at oven-dodger, n.
[UK] J. Meades Fowler Family Business 194: Jacks from Chatham [and] pongos from Brompton Barracks.
at jack, n.5
[UK] J. Meades Fowler Family Business 194: Jacks from Chatham [and] pongos from Brompton Barracks.
at pongo, n.1
[UK] J. Meades Fowler Family Business 84: Sullen Ben and the Wisenheimer Lennie.
at wisenheimer, n.
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