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[UK] New Boys’ World 22 Dec. 76: Working hard for a cove that didn’t care a cuss about him.
at not care a curse, v.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 95: Wot right ’as he got to be mucking abaht the barracks at all in the night?
at muck about, v.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 95: I was looking to see how many more bally idiots there were in this room.
at bally, adj.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 96: Sproggs – you beast!
at beast, n.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 95: Oh, corks! Jist look what’s blowed in th’ bloomin’ door!
at blow in, v.2
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 100: Ta, ta, old chappie.
at chappie, n.
[UK] New Boys’ World 22 Dec. 76: The I-talian disappeared without leaving me a copper.
at copper, n.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 100: I was one of the best cracksmen in London once.
at cracksman, n.1
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 100: I’d get out of a crib like this with my eyes shut.
at crib, n.1
[UK] New Boys’ World 22 Dec. 85: What the dickens does he mean?
at what the dickens...?, phr.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 97: Both Bryan and the ‘cattle duffer,’ as cattle robbers were called, were eased of their handcuffs.
at duffer, n.1
[UK] New Boys’ World 22 Dec. 84: By Jingo, the old woman is an old man, or I’ll eat my hat!
at eat one’s hat, v.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 94: We were hauled up specially [...] to see Baxendale receive a thrashing.
at haul up, v.1
[UK] New Boys’ World 22 Dec. 84: By Jingo, the old woman is an old man, or I’ll eat my hat!
at jingo!, excl.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 94: ‘By jinks!’ scoffed Tom.
at by jinks! (excl.) under jinks, n.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 100: You are sure to go to the ‘big jug’ for a few years.
at jug, n.1
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 98: As soon as our backs were turned you’d knock off smoking and shout for help.
at knock off, v.
[UK] New Boys’ World 22 Dec. 79: Sit down, mate; you look a bit knocked up.
at knocked up, adj.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 95: Oh, do leave off, corp’l!
at leave off! (excl.) under leave, v.
[UK] New Boys’ World 22 Dec. 78: To ‘turn out’ meant becoming a bushranger – it was a camp-fire phrase.
at turn out, v.2
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 95: S’pose yer let’s me ’ave a rub at yer nah – eh? Jist two or three pokes fer luck?
at poke, n.1
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 95: What’s yer nime, rooky?
at rookie, n.
[UK] New Boys’ World 29 Dec. 97: One of the fellows who’d stuck the coach up.
at stick up, v.1
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