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[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 40: Isn’t the boss a queer man to put up with that daft article?
at article, n.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 131: ‘Ask me ass,’ said Danny. ‘D’ye think I’ve nothing else to do but talk about stone?’.
at ask my...!, excl.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 184: Why, man, she’s like a cat with kittens until I fork out the wages. Then if I’m short she’s on me house immediately, an’ I get a long sermon on the duties of a father to his children.
at on someone’s ass under ass, n.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 50: One Monday morning Danny was a bit sour and he went baldheaded for the Gargoyle.
at bald-headed, adv.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 93: We’ll make a strong protest and we’ll ballyrag them all over town.
at ballyrag, v.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 165: Many’s the batter we went on an’ we were no worse for it.
at batter, n.3
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 53: When I joked him about them he bawled me off properly.
at bawl off, v.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 74: Begor, you have him dead an’ buried already, Gargoyle.
at begorra!, excl.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 186: When the Gaffer shouts ‘Blow-up’ at one o’clock, the atmosphere improves slightly.
at blow up, v.2
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 209: Another time it would be the Irish language, on which he poured scorn ... ‘Reviving a language that was only the vehicle of expression for bog-men!’.
at bogman (n.) under bog, n.3
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 18: Get to hell out of here before I brain ye, ye maggotty-lookin’ article!
at brain, v.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 49: It often happened that I got a brainwave in bed about a tricky job.
at brainwave (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 140: Wan look at the briny an’ ye’re fit for a stretcher. Why don’t yer keep to the land where you belong?
at briny, n.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 185: Oh, my God, there’ll be brutal scenes in a minnit. Women an’ children falling on both sides!
at brutal, adj.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 43: ‘No more old buck out of you, now,’ said Nedgill.
at buck, n.4
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 189: D’ye hear me old butter gills!
at butterhead (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 146: If a man broke his neck coming out of wan [...] There’s very little chance of getting compo outa the clergy.
at compo, n.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 69: The next morning we were both craw-sick, so the good woman gave us a good tightener of the home-cured bacon.
at crawsick, adj.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 142: The bird men would form into shifting groups, puffing away at their pipes or chewing ‘kerbstone plug’.
at curbstone mixture (n.) under curbstone, adj.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 139: Oh, he was a proper old dog!
at old dog, n.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 137: Another day when we came in the knives an’ forks weren’t on the table, an’ he shouts to the woman: ‘Where’s the atin’ irons?’.
at eating irons, n.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 97: I can always remember the eejity things I did.
at eejit, adj.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 137: The wife slipped him a fast wan a few times and he was taking no chances.
at slip a fast one (over) (v.) under fast one, n.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 121: They have enough to do feckin’ around with all the soft jobs.
at feck, v.2
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 185: What blinded me ould fella to put me at this drudgery first day?
at old fellow, n.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 97: An’ the terrier hauled off an’ made a flake at him.
at flake, v.1
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 15: And ‘whatever you do, boy, see that the gaffer’s gallon is boiling!’ That was sound advice as he’d have a lip on him if he had to wait.
at gaffer, n.2
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 136: When her back was turned he put out his hand an’ made a glaum at a piece.
at glom, n.2
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 223: ‘Not a hope in hell,’ said Danny Melt. ‘Stone cutting is finished.’.
at not a hope in hell under hell, n.
[UK] S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 184: Herself is always in a good humour of Friday evening. [...] Why, man, she’s like a cat with kittens until I fork out the wages.
at her, n.
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