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(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 124: You’re a decent lad, a real decent lad, heart o’ th’ rowl, he said; th’ real Annie Daly, he said, one in a thousand.at real Ally Daly, the, n.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 124: You’re a decent lad, a real decent lad, heart o’ th’ rowl, he said; th’ real Annie Daly, he said, one in a thousand. (con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 297: Supposed to be Vaynus. Naughty girl in the altogether.at altogether, the, n.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 175: Good God, didn’t the time go slow! Tempus Fugit me arse!at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 267: Mailmurra left [...] without as much as an I’m off, or So long, or even a kiss me arse.at kiss my arse!, excl.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 157: Biddy, the girls’ manageress, her big-arsed, lumpy body lumberin’ up the stairs.at -arsed, sfx
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 153: Ask me arse! said Johnny shortly.at ask my...!, excl.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 266: Mailmurra bawling afther him, Bah! back o’ me hand to you, bowsey!at back of my hand (and the sole of my foot) under back, n.1
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 15: Get a holt of that oul’ balls, Tim Healey, who’s as good as yous can get at th’ moment, an’ lift him into th’ place of honour.at old balls (n.) under balls, n.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 74: The whole bang lot o’ them, said Tom.at whole bang shoot, n.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 136: I’ll flatten your grinny bake, an’ knock th’ plume outa yer impudence.at beak, n.2
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 80: A straight-left beauty to the poor man’s chin that sent him in a curled-up heap to the floor.at beauty, n.1
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 122: It’s soon the tongues of th’ neighbours ’ud get goin’, blow on us, an’ I’d begin and you’d end your further days in jail.at blow, v.1
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 70: Gawks. Bog-trotters. Never seen anything higher than a haystack.at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 40: Never the icy glint in his eye, unless some big bug in the opposite camp was mentioned.at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 331: The scarlet woman, the whore of Babylon, who’s dhrunk with the blood of the saints, hard at it in the midst of the soaring an’ falling bum-balls, red-hot from the canon’s mouth.at bum balls (n.) under bum, n.1
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 55: Looka the poor Mulligans, with their four chiselurs down with the measles.at chiseller, n.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 50: There were a few vile boys, all the samey, allee savee, in Dublin’s fair city [...] with wondherful chokers on them.at choker, n.1
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 187: The whole thing was taken silently by the audience [...] Archie got gloomy, and for long after he was content to play one of the corner men.at corner man (n.) under corner, n.2
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 138: When you’re among your corner-boy friends, you can act the jackeen as much as you like.at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 269: With Brodar shoutin’ at him for an oul’ crawthumper to get up an’ meet his doom.at craw-thumper, n.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 8: But the O’Briens, the Dillons, and the Healeys [...] were dead set on making an end of him.at dead set on (adj.) under dead set, adj.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 237: An’ furry flounces round our necks as well, said the vanman, to keep our diddies warm.at diddies, n.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 286: Eh, you, he said to the lissome lassie, draw it mild an’ let the woman have her say.at draw it mild!, excl.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 75: Easy, easy, murmured the other constable.at easy!, excl.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 295: An’ how d’ye like me, she added roguishly, in a fie-for-shame costume?at fie for shame, n.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 306: He came dressed fit to kill, with a fine geranium or a dainty rose fast fixed in his buttonhole.at fit to kill under fit to..., phr.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 122: Th’ white-collared get, said Dorin.at get, n.1
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 240: A – yeh, yeh bitch’s get! he roared at the horse.at whore’s get (n.) under get, n.1
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 152: Yeh, get off with you! said Dyke viciously.at get off!, excl.
(con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 10: All the grinnin’ foreign canonised bowseys gathered round me, [...] all of them glaumin’ to see something that’ll put a sthrain on perpetual piety for me Irish flock.at glom, v.
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