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The Best of Myles choose

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[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 221: With what three commonplace gentlemen did this attempt of his suggest he was confusing me? Tom, Dick and Harry.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 57: As happy as Larry lookin’ at them.
at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 338: Drunk; jarred; [...] merry; well on.
at well away, adj.
[Ire] in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 68: There is nothing so bad as a bad bag.
at bag, n.1
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 231: Anybody that can play a concerto on a piano deserves more than five bar anny day of the week.
at bar, n.1
[Ire] in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 34: So help me, I am a crane-driver from Drogheda, and I have not opened my beak since I came in tonight.
at beak, n.2
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 73: Your man was puttin up a beaver!
at beaver, n.1
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 203: It is, be the japers!
at bejabers!, excl.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 315: In plain English, this means, ‘Bona fides are the standby of the State’.
at bona fide, n.
[Ire] in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 230: He was the best man in the world for clever honest fun, for sneering at bores, bluffs and bowsies.
at bowsie, n.
[Ire] M. na gCopaleen Best of Myles (1968) 53: Two of the coolest customers I ever seen, didn’t give a damn about us although we went near enough to brain them with the oars.
at brain, v.
[Ire] in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 61: Begob the suspense was brutal. BRUTAL.
at brutal, adj.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 278: Superimpose on all that the miasma of ironic usage [...] Irish bullery and Paddy Whackery.
at bull, n.2
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 338: Drunk; jarred; fluthered; canned.
at canned, adj.
[Ire] in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 48: Begob here’s me ’bus. Cheers!
at cheers!, excl.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 46: Work and walking around swallying pints and chawin’ the rag at the street corner.
at chew the rag, v.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 328: The illiterate stupid ... clodbrained ... half-witted ... platter-faced ... cuckoo.
at clod-brained (adj.) under clod, n.1
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 338: Drunk; jarred; [...] cock-eyed; cross-eyed.
at cock-eyed, adj.2
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 15: I could distinctly hear snatches of talk like ‘never sober,’ [...] ‘half the stuff cogged from other people’.
at cog, v.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 15: I could distinctly hear snatches of talk like ‘never sober,’ ‘literary corner-boy’ [...] ‘cool calculated cheek’: and so on.
at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 36: Picture the Covey as an old man of seventy.
at covey, n.2
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 245: The last time I tried to crash a show was in the old Electric there in Mart street.
at crash, v.
[Ire] in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 45: The Lord knows what the unfortunate men signed away, crooked drunk inside in the back snug.
at crooked, adj.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 338: Drunk; jarred; [...] cock-eyed; cross-eyed; crooked.
at cross-eyed, adj.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 101: The curate behind the bar has opened his face into so enormous a yawn that the tears can be heard dripping into the pint he is pulling.
at curate, n.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 235: But of course your man Shaw digs with the other foot.
at dig with the other foot (v.) under dig with the...foot, v.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 233: The actual symphony concert range is a strictly ding-dong limited list for a kick-off.
at ding-dong, adj.2
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 335: I will do for him, gorblimey, if I have to swing for it!
at do for, v.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 241: The writing crowd, it is well known, are only a parcel of dud czechs and bohemian gulls.
at dud, adj.
[Ire] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 249: They are the things of childhood and together with the Meccano jersey in purest jaeger, the cogged ekkers and the consumption of neat lemonade.
at eccer, n.
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