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The Spoilers choose

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[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 133: Your boy’s doin’ A 1, in spite o’ the luggage in his weskit.
at A-1, adv.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 67: Bits of him all up an’ down the ain’t-it-a-treat as fur as the ole ‘Glue Pot’.
at ain’t it a treat, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 88: Come to that, what you want to go messin’ about wi’ the gel at all for?
at mess about, v.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 107: An’ I thinks to myself, ‘She’s a kind ’un, I bet. I’ll go an’ chance my bloomin’ arm and arst her for a bit o’ tommy’.
at chance one’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 289: You’d be pinched an’ scragged as safe as ’ouses. At any rate, you’d be put in stir for the rest o’ your natural.
at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 90: ‘You go an’ put your ’ead in a bag,’ said Marketer. ‘An’ don’t let it be a good bag, either.’.
at put your head in a bag! (excl.) under bag, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 64: ‘Give me a drop o’ the bane,’ said Marketer.
at bane, the, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 88: It’s a bit of a barney about her.
at barney, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 102: ‘Billo!’ exclaimed the boy hoarsely, ‘or there’ll be a rare ole chermozzle.’.
at billo!, excl.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 165: I’d rather ’ave five quid down, once a year, to blue in a day if I felt like it, then thirty bob a week for life.
at blew, v.2
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 112: ‘But, my boy, you yourself admit that the dog is worthless.’ ‘No, I don’t, then,’ said Deuce. ‘That’s where you come a bloomer, that is.’.
at bloomer, n.2
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 106: She bones my ’at an’ my clothes.
at bone, v.1
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 250: It’s a red ’ot trail this time an’ I’m booked.
at book, v.1
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 7: Brassin’ up my deaner for a chair.
at brass up (v.) under brass, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 134: ‘Why,’ I cried, ‘why do I always accept a bull’s eye [...] when some little toddler offers me one?’.
at bull’s eye, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 231: Bungled the last job. An’ nothin’ since but booze and bounce.
at bunce, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 4: I didn’t want you to think, when you come out, as all your pals had give you the go-by.
at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 37: ‘By my cadaver!’ the other made terse reply, ‘if you put your daddlers on her again, I’ll set such a mark on you --’.
at by my cadaver! (excl.) under cadaver, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 235: I shall have to call you over the coals for your share in this little business.
at call over the coals (v.) under call, v.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 158: The chat we’re on is called The Observatory, an’ it’s got a sort o’ tower stickin’ out o’ the roof.
at chat, n.2
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 162: No need to chew the fat about it.
at chew the fat, v.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 197: It would be fine to see ole dad an’ ’ave a chow.
at chow, n.2
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 150: ‘Some three months ago you did me the honour –’ ‘Chuck it!’ ‘– the honour of accepting a certain proposal of marriage.’.
at chuck it!, excl.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 4: Bin ’angin’ about the Scrubbs an’ then ’ere for nigh on three weeks, I ’ave, clobbered up like this.
at clobber, v.1
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 12: An’ bring me a quart o’ Bass, cock, instead.
at cock, n.2
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 54: But you did come it a bit thick, Peter.
at come it, v.1
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 72: I don’t want none o’ your ikey little ways. So cheese it – see! Don’t come it.
at come it, v.1
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 25: Is she crook?
at crook, adj.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 98: She takes the ‘curate’ poker – a black, twisted thing – from its hiding place behind the coal-box.
at curate, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Spoilers 37: ‘By my cadaver!’ the other made terse reply, ‘if you put your daddlers on her again, I’ll set such a mark on you—’.
at daddler, n.1
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