![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland")
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 79: Fawkes was the kingpin and the head bottle-washer of the whole outfit.at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 79: Fawkes was the kingpin and the head bottle-washer of the whole outfit. (con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 84: Some people at one time thought they were trying to banjax and bewilder the One, Holy and Apostolic.at banjax, v.
Hard Life 7: Be the dad, Mr Hanafin said smiling, Marius will be delighted.at bedad!, excl.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 38: By the jappers I have, many a time.at bejabers!, excl.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 65: I’ve had my bellyful of the ignorant guff that is poured out by those maggots of Christian Brothers.at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 111: Jesuits can be a far closer police force than the men in blue.at boys in blue, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 35: Well, damn the cardboard shields the Dominicans used in Spain, those bloodstained bowsies.at bowsie, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 70: In God’s name, he said loudly, what is that bucko up to?at bucko, n.1
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 78: A man named Robert Catesby thinks to himself that we’ve had as much of this sort of carry-on as we’re going to take.at carry-on, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 100: That’s the sort of cods we have looking after law and order in Dublin.at cod, n.2
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 21: The brother thought it was to prevent us ‘cogging’ or copying each other’s home exercises.at cog, v.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 7: Be the dad, Mr. Hanafin said smiling.at dad, n.1
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 38: Sure they don’t give a goddam if women were dying like flies in the street.at god-damn, n.1
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 12: I always heard that Saint Finbarr was a Protestant, Mrs. Crotty snapped. Dug with the other foot.at dig with the other foot (v.) under dig with the...foot, v.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 99: They’d swear a hole in an iron bucket. They are all sons of gobhawks from down the country.at gobhawk, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 106: We’d look like bloody gawms.at gom, n.2
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 90: As they say in Ireland, you are only trying to grig me.at greg, v.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 91: That gurriers wouldn’t think of advising a man to take off his clothes before he took a bath.at gurrier, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 176: He led the way into a public house in Suffolk Street and to my surprise agreed to drink half-ones instead of balls of malt.at half-one, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 85: It is true that the Jesuits were everywhere and had a finger in every pie. They were cute hawks.at hawk, n.1
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 65: They probably got their learning at some dirty hedge school.at hedge, adj.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 80: I needn’t tell you he and several others got the high jump. But Lord save us, Fawkes couldn’t climb up the ladder to the gallows.at high jump, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 97: She was what was known as a good hoult, with auburn hair, blue eyes and a very nice smile.at hoult, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 65: They are humbugs and imposters and a disgrace to their cloth.at humbug, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 36: The holy friars in Spain propagated the true faith by driving red-hot nails into the backs of unfortunate Jewmen.at Jewman, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 65: I’ve had my bellyful of the ignorant guff that is poured out by those maggots of Christian Brothers.at maggot, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 132: Faith and can’t you see? The whole shooting gallery collapsed under me.at whole shooting match, the, phr.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 76: I will tell you a funny one [...] A damn funny one. I will give you a laugh.at one, n.1
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 40: But by gob it wasn’t like that when we had the Penal Laws, with Paddy Whack keeping a lookout for the soldiery from the top of the ditch on a Sunday morning.at paddywhack, n.
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 36: Putting duchesses and nuns up the pole and having all Italy littered with their bastards.at up the pole, adj.2
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