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Second from Last in the Sack Race choose

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[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 301: Suddenly his ‘A’ levels were looming [...] Brave talks about exams not being valid tests of a man’s worth were so much hot air.
at hot air, n.
[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 287: He ended up having fantasies about going the whole way with Maureen Abberley.
at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 268: I’m as thick as pig shit.
at ...pigshit under thick as..., adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 194: ‘Ass,’ said Paul. ‘Girls can be asses.’.
at ass, n.
[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 307: She’s a right belter now, is Lorna Arrow.
at belter (n.) under belt, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 92: I’m just slipping out t’ Navigation for a bevvy.
at bevvy, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 175: Mr Pick-Nose was carried off by the bogey man.
at bogey, n.3
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 69: He liked it best when people bopped Huns.
at bop, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 167: Suddenly a cry rent the air. ‘All new-bugs to the shower room.’.
at bug, n.1
[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 203: I’ve got this dreadful cold. I’m right bunged up.
at bung up, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 52: I saw me dad on top of me mam doing summat that weren’t strangling [...] and when I asked mam she were right cagey about it.
at cagey, adj.1
[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 319: Anna, the stay-put char, is back.
at char, n.1
[UK] (context 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 87: He turned out to be Puking Pratt and his Soggy Ciggy.
at ciggie, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 154: He was parched. He didn’t know what language to use, even to himself. He was in a linguistic no man’s land. ‘Ee, I’m fair clammed,’ had been left behind. ‘Gosh, I’m absolutely Hairy Mac Thirsters,’ had not yet arrived.
at clammed, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 176: Oh, I’m all in favour of clueless clots.
at clueless, adj.
[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 268: Cecil E. Jenkinson, licensed to be a crashing bore and have a son who was as thick as pig shit.
at crashing, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 92: His demob suit hanging off him like wool on a dying sheep.
at demob suit (n.) under demob, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 92: They hadn’t realised that his swift demob had been on medical grounds.
at demob, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 40: They said they’d be here early doors.
at early doors, adv.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 70: Come on girls! Come on chaps! / Dot Hitler on the napper.
at dot, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 23: I’ll drop thee both one short before I’m through.
at drop someone one (v.) under drop, v.3
[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 260: Why not make October a dry month?
at dry, adj.1
[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 259: Uncle Teddy refuses to behave like a typical ex-pat!
at expat, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 144: ‘Cricketer,’ said Webster, and everybody fell about.
at fall about (v.) under fall, v.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 115: Today was to be Henry’s day of reckoning [...] to demonstrate on that brick edifice that his prowess at emitting wind was no fluke.
at fluke, n.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 82: I feel a bit of a frost, Mr Barrett – always catching colds and letting the office down.
at frost, n.
[UK] (con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 256: Her face was sturdy. It had character. It had grit.
at grit, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 87: I can’t. I’m fair jiggered up.
at jiggered, adj.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 28: Pooh-Dried-Up-Dog-Jobs.
at job, n.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 183: He died sitting on the outside lats.
at lats, n.1
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