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[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 84: I would have given just then some one else’s gold-mines for a strong lay-up of something neat [F&H].
at lay-up, n.
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 93: ‘On that you can bet the family plate.’ ‘Right you are.’.
at right you are!, excl.
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 100: Do you remember Carrotty Jack?
at carrotty, adj.
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 95: We became a happy crew – a lot of brickies with a single thought.
at crew, n.
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 90: But if you think I am a white-faced doughey [i.e. baker’s man] I am not, and you had better fetch a batch of dougheys and start them at work.
at doughy, n.1
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 13: Now you have it. Shake fins.
at fin, n.1
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 124: Off you go or I’ll flatten you out.
at flatten, v.
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 119: I saw I was grassed, so I took his measurement.
at grass, v.1
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 117: I say, you are hot on the question.
at hot on, adj.1
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 94: I had a lot of militia chaps, and well paid and lushed them.
at lush, v.
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 117: Surely it is better to have a contractor who knows what work is [...] than one who knows next to nothing about construction, and is financed by some loan-monger, or is at the mercy of some wire-puller.
at wire-puller, n.1
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 123: About six wanted ‘sub’.
at sub, n.1
[UK] J. Newman Scamping Tricks 88: He was a beautiful kidder and could patter sweet and pretty.
at sweet, adv.2
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