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[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene ii: I could have been the very best. Why they napped me to be the berries in my trade!
at berries, the, n.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene iv: Who’s the buffer with the archaic gimmick?
at buffer, n.3
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene v: When I’m chatting up crumpet. (Explaining.) Charvers.
at charver, n.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene iv: Get him in the cobblers, Edmund.
at cobblers, n.2
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene v: You’re codding me now?
at cod, v.
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene ii: Played it along with a single cow [...] when I could have had twenty top-notch harlots in my stall.
at cow, n.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene v: When I’m chatting up crumpet.
at crumpet, n.
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene ii: He must be one right stupid dumb-cluck.
at dumb cluck (n.) under dumb, adj.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene v: Leave me alone, I’m tired, I’ve been on the go!
at on the go under go, n.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene iv: Who’s the gomey?
at gom, n.2
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene ix: Come to my working blanket, kiddo!
at kiddo, n.
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene v: Did it never strike you pink that he might really be a mean-un?
at strike me pink! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene v: God, that last place we were in, James, bored the knickers off me!
at bore the pants off (v.) under pants, n.
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene vi: Pencil prick!
at pencil prick (n.) under pencil, n.
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene v: Life’s a good screw, yeah-yeah!
at screw, n.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Morning After Optimism in Plays: 3 (1994) Scene ii: If you had seen me, on the quiet, having my slice, on any old side, with any old whore.
at slice, n.
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) II i: Giving you the bullet.
at give someone the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) II ii: The little pad we used to doss in?
at doss, v.
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) I ii: I was passed over in a regular piece of church jiggery-pokery, and fobbed off with one of the new semi-detacheds.
at fob someone off (v.) under fob, v.
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) I ii: I was passed over in a regular piece of church jiggery-pokery, and fobbed off with one of the new semi-detacheds.
at jiggery-pokery, n.
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) II i: The mandatory one black was there of course, T.V. personalities, people from the press, jilly-journalists.
at jill, n.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) II i: What’s with the giving me the run around, Hymie?
at runaround, n.
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) I ii: And if he doesn’t give me the subbies, we’ll have to tap St. Anthony for the short term.
at sub, n.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) I ii: We’ll buy a pan – if the Monsignor thinks to sub me.
at sub, v.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) II i: What’s with the running out on us like that?
at what’s with —?, phr.
[Ire] T. Murphy Sanctuary Lamp in Plays: 3 (1994) II ii: No, babies are wide, Har, babies are shrewd. Well, they aren’t fools.
at wide, adj.
[Ire] T. Murphy Gigli Concert in Plays 3 (1994) Scene iv: I’d never took a girl out before but I walked happy-as-larry, bliss, Mr King, at her side.
at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
[Ire] T. Murphy Gigli Concert in Plays 3 (1994) Scene viii: You’re a case!
at case, n.1
[Ire] T. Murphy Gigli Concert in Plays 3 (1994) Scene v: Trying to get my – my micky into her.
at mickey, n.1
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