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[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 182: And I was thirsty. I could have drunk the Yarra till it stopped running. [...] When I’d taken enough in to fill my boilers, I got my eyes open again.
at boiler, n.1
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 148: I sort of subscribed to his ravings about women, while everybody else about the place poked borak at him.
at poke (the) borak (v.) under borak, n.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 146: ‘Cheese it,’ Burber said.
at cheese it!, excl.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 185: I caught my thoughts up. That sort of fat made bad chewing.
at chew the fat, v.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 59: Now crack down, or I’ll knock the dust out of you.
at crack down (v.) under crack, v.1
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 118: I went out of the station on the Racecourse side, climbed on a bus and doubled back down Grange Road. If anyone was foxing me it left them cold.
at fox, v.2
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 63: This dolled-up half-pint of a kid talking to me like that!
at half-pint, n.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 122: So long as you know and keep your head pulled in.
at pull your head in! (excl.) under head, n.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 184: It gave me a kick to see the way he rolled over to me, with his headlights turned full on, and grabbed my hand.
at headlight, n.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 30: She’ll be all right when she’s slept it off. Actually the old hunx ain’t a bad sort.
at hunks, n.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 184: ‘Snor Rider?’ I said. ‘Dead as yesterday’s mutton,’ Fred said.
at dead as mutton (adj.) under mutton, n.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 45: They know who done it. A bit of dirt called Snow Rider. He went into smoke.
at in smoke under smoke, n.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 23: Where’s that blasted Roxy got to. Lazy, loafing old sooner.
at sooner, n.
[UK] E. North Nobody Stops Me 66: She’s decent enough, even if she’s a bit up-stage.
at upstage, adj.
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