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[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 32: This geezer used to put a roof slate on the bar after he’d had a few, then smash it with his forehead.
at have a few (v.) under few, a, n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 21: Three youngish blokes at a table in the corner, obviously well away.
at well away, adj.
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 16: Well, someone was looking for me ... must have blown out.
at blow out, v.1
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 29: Scruffy! Bleeding cheek ...
at cheek, n.2
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 16: See you chucking-out time?
at chucking-out time, n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 48: Right little gold-digger.
at gold-digger, n.1
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ in Minder [TV script] 16: Terry down the drinker wrestling Irishmen?
at drinker, n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 24: Where’s laughing boy with his sea-chest?
at laughing boy (n.) under laughing, adj.
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 35: You been scraping the barrel yourself.
at scrape the barrel (v.) under scrape, v.
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 34: Ship him back to his goats or whatever he’s got. We’ll go and get him a ticket right now.
at ship, v.1
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 4: Hang about, someone’s getting a spanking.
at spanking, n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 61: Yeah ... getting you all steamed up.
at steamed (up), adj.
[UK] A. Payne ‘Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 61: Listen, Charlie, this geezer’s got nothing to do with your brother. That was Johnny telling you stories.
at story, n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘The Dessert Song’ Minder [TV script] 51: There you go ... half a ton. Bit tight-fisted that Christina.
at half-a-ton (n.) under ton, n.1
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ in Minder [TV script] 40: I’m thick as two short planks, generous when it suits me.
at ...two short planks under thick as..., adj.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 58: I grew up in that house, Arthur. Remember my old man coming back with a blighty one.
at Blighty, n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 17: I must blow. See you first thing.
at blow, v.1
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 66: Terry takes his D.J. off and hurls it across Filmer’s desk.
at D.J., n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 52: That Kate’s done you up like a kipper.
at do (up) like a kipper (v.) under do, v.1
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 21: Is it me, or is he a bit doolally?
at doolally, adj.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 17: Thing is we could be onto a very nice little earner here.
at earner, n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 13: Comprennez? No speaky Inglese, you little greaseball?
at greaseball, n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 13: Boardman picks up the gunge, hovers over them, waiting for an opportunity to pour it over Bernie.
at gunge, n.1
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 18: Bowing and scraping to all those hooray henrys.
at hooray (Henry), n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 56: Look, let us use the phone and I’ll sort that in a jiffy.
at jiffy, n.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ in Minder [TV script] 44: Shirley is done up to the nines, a real little goer.
at up to the nines, phr.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 67: Kate’s hired a couple of right gorillas to turn over that young couple.
at turn over, v.1
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 26: She piles into Terry.
at pile in (v.) under pile, v.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ in Minder [TV script] 32: That’s how the poncing swine get away with it!
at poncing (adj.) under ponce, v.
[UK] A. Payne ‘All Mod Cons’ Minder [TV script] 39: It’s a bit previous, isn’t it?
at previous, adj.
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