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I Knock at the Door choose

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[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 225: If there was any more of this buggerin’ about with the good name of the throops he’d let the Lord Lieutenant know all the details.
at bugger about, v.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 37: So one fine day, without as much as a goodbye or a kiss me arse to the rest of them, he set his face towards Dublin.
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 10: I’d sell meself for him, be Jasus.
at bejazus!, excl.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 174: Shapin’, jeered the boy, tryin’ to do the big. You’re sayin’ that because you’ve none.
at do the big (v.) under big, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 164: Even when I try to make up to her she’ll shake her head and say No, Johnny, I’m black out with you for what you done in church.
at black out with, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 181: You’ll hold my coat for me, sonny, he said, and watch me turning the faces of two bowseys into chunks of bleeding beef.
at bowsie, n.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 31: He had to cut the sthring, said a voice a little nearer, to separate the bad blind eye from the good one, an’ now he’s breakin’ his arse to cut the blind one out altogether.
at break one’s ass (v.) under break, v.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 164: You have to be snappy on accounta if you weren’t quick the buggers ’ud snap a bit outa your fingers.
at bugger, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 78: His belly full of fat, and his old cocked hat, and pancakes in his bum, bum, bum.
at bum, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 176: Go on, Fred, give the cheeky chiselur a crack across the snot.
at chiseller, n.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 77: Oh, chuck it, Johnny, chuck it, boy.
at chuck it!, excl.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 229: A few Fenian faces in the crowd among the Irish [...] were soon collared by the police, an’ cuffed out of the vicinity.
at collar, v.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 226: Don’t be shovin’ your conk in where it isn’t needed or wanted or valued.
at conk, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 229: A few Fenian faces in the crowd among the Irish [...] were soon collared by the police, an’ cuffed out of the vicinity.
at cuff, v.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 181: Don’t let him get one home on either of you, or else you’re done; fence him off, and fight cute.
at cute, adv.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 116: Ball in the Decker, would be O’Halloran’s choice; the daddy of them all, he’d add, an’ I’m first.
at daddy, n.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 253: Bedammit, it’s hard lines, if a man can’t pass a simple remark in a simple way on a simple subject.
at damn it!, excl.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 55: We met two lovely big-diddied rides, and they were all for us going home with them.
at diddies, n.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 51: I’m really a woman an’ different in every way after gettin’ down me a dollop of tea.
at dollop, n.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 74: They were watching their chance for years, and Kitty O’Shea is only an excuse for downing him.
at down, v.3
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 99: Marwood the hangman dancin’ gayly around the giant Joe Brady while his assisstant was tying him up for the drop.
at drop, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 72: That comes of letting him go to the funeral, complained Michael. He’s getting twice too old-fashioned for his years.
at old-fashioned, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 240: I fecked them, said Johnny gleefully [...] A nice thing if you’d been caught feckin’ them, she said, in a frightened voice.
at feck, v.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 109: The drover [...] ran over to the tired cow, and began to hammer her with his stick. ‘Yeh whore’s get,’ he shouted, slashin’ away at her.
at whore’s get (n.) under get, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 120: He wished she hadn’t picked on him, for a lot in the ring knew he was gone on her.
at gone on (adj.) under gone, adj.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 79: He watched the big heads and big hands guzzling down their eggs and tea and meat.
at guzzle, v.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 182: I’ll dance in then and put the tin hat on him.
at put the tin hat on (v.) under tin hat, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 260: Take your tram to hell out of this, back to where it came – quick! he ordered.
at to hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 141: And oul’ haughty hoity-toity holy Hunter goin’ one better be sayin’ that God sent suffferin’s to try us.
at hoity-toity, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 136: On a bank of primroses, sat a grey-beard old josser.
at josser, n.4
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