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City Of The World 265: Don’t chance your arm in this here town, or there’ll be the deuce of a shine!at chance one’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
City Of The World 265: Don’t chance your arm in this here town, or there’ll be the deuce of a shine! City Of The World 154: They will, on high days and holidays, do their best to make the name of ’Arry a byword, with painted horns and Kruger-tiddlers. [Ibid.] 191: The days of the ’Arry are numbered. The ’Arry of a banal convention: the ’Arry of Punch, of the music-halls, of Cockney rhymesters, is already extinct. For it is the essence of ’Arry that he should be young. An ’Arry of more than forty years is an inconceivable monstrosity.at ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
City Of The World 271: A nice old benevolent party in gold barnacles and a hat that is called a wideawake.at wide-awake, n.
City Of The World 321: The vices of opium-smoking and bhang and hashish chewing. [Ibid.] 322: Within these walls [...] you will find a number of silent men sitting in the semi-darkness, enjoying their kaif, which is Eastern for dolce far niente. They loll [...] some chewing betel or bhang or hashish, others supine and blissfully unconscious in the throes of an opium dream.at bang, n.4
City Of The World 271: A nice old benevolent party in gold barnacles and a hat that is called a wideawake.at barnacles, n.
City Of The World 259: ’Alf o’ them there gilt-edged barneys as you read about in the newspapers – the big bank scoops that talk in five or six figures o’ speech.at barney, n.1
City Of The World 243: Some weedy leader of a gang of hooligans or some young gallows-bird.at gallows-bird, n.
City Of The World 258: It was after I had done my bit.at do a/one’s bit (v.) under bit, n.1
City Of The World 266: It’s the first dodge the blackleg ’as got to learn if he wants to do any good at the game.at blackleg, n.1
City Of The World 120: It was a regular blindo, I can tell you.at blindo, n.
City Of The World 243: If [...] they are so lacking in all appreciation of literature that even the ha’penny ‘blood’ fails to attract them.at blood, n.1
City Of The World 172: ‘Tea! Hoo-bloomin’-ray!’ the children shout back.at blooming, adj.1
City Of The World 154: They will have money in their pockets [...] and ‘fags’ between their lips, and maybe a Cockney blowen on their arm.at blowen, n.
City Of The World 260: Collaring more ’n half the blunt, and doing nothing for it.at blunt, n.1
City Of The World 272: There’s plenty o’ fences [...] as ’ll fit you up wi’ what you want, all proper, from spats to a draught-board suit and bag-cap to match.at draught-board suit, n.
City Of The World 259: ’Alf o’ them there gilt-edged barneys as you read about in the newspapers – the big bank scoops that talk in five or six figures o’ speech [...] Well, them there is the sort of high bobberees as Jerry Manders works.at bobbery, n.
City Of The World 259: He’s the Boss.at boss, n.2
City Of The World 274: I’ve known gonophs taken in by an Abyssinian gold watch-chain that was fastened on to a pawnbroker’s brief ’fore now.at brief, n.1
City Of The World 264: ‘What does it mean?’ I asked him. ‘Broadsmen,’ was the cryptic answer. ‘And what are broadsmen?’ ‘Card-sharpers.’.at broadsman (n.) under broads, n.
City Of The World 274: He’s got to know whether his toy and tackle is a real clock and slang or only a measly Brummagem fake.at Brummagem, adj.
City Of The World 275: He mustn’t get cannon – well, drunk – or that’ll make him shaky and spoil his hands.at cannon, adj.
City Of The World 252: Highway robbery being punishable with the cat [...] most always means a rough and tumble.at cat, n.3
City Of The World 36: Middlesex Street, still popularly known as Petticoat Lane, then a seething mass of chafferers.at chaffer, n.2
City Of The World 75: Frenchies, Germans, the whole caboodle of us. Chings, too.at ching, n.1
City Of The World 276: Then they got more artful and clever. They chummed up with real swell workmen that passed things to ’em in a crowd.at chum along with (v.) under chum, v.
City Of The World 270: ‘One consolation, though,’ he chuckled, ‘the bookie don’t stand to click much, either way.’.at click, v.3
City Of The World 237: And then there’s fellows like yourself – not too coiny – who’ve got a bit of symperfy for a poor lad.at coiny, adj.
City Of The World 271: Another wheeze is to come the sweet young thing in muslin.at come the..., v.
City Of The World 263: Another reason why burgling ain’t exactly dinner for tea is that he’s bound to cop out at the finish – get lagged, I mean.at cop out, v.1
City Of The World 273: And say you’re copped wi’ the wrong bag. Well, all you got to do is to look silly and stare at the bag and apologise.at copped, adj.
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