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[UK] M. Pugh Chancer 98: ‘Oh ballocks,’ his son replied.
at ballocks!, excl.
[UK] M. Pugh Chancer 128: Go and boil your can. Of all the idiotic...
at go and boil (the back of) your head! (excl.) under boil, v.
[UK] M. Pugh Chancer 139: He hoped to have one last leave in Kashmir before he got the chopper.
at get the chop (v.) under chop, n.1
[UK] M. Pugh Chancer 91: You fancy yourself as a ‘rubber-heeler?’ The phrase usually applied to policemen, sent to check on another policeman.
at rubber heel, n.
[UK] M. Pugh Chancer 85: Bunch of nig-nogs off the trees.
at nig-nog, n.2
[UK] M. Pugh Chancer 91: He was as two-faced as a cod, a proper chancer.
at proper, adj.
[UK] M. Pugh Chancer 23: I always wanted to be in Who’s Who so that I could list all the ten-bob Soho touches I knew.
at touch, n.1
[UK] M. Pugh Chancer 91: He was as two-faced as a cod, a proper chancer.
at two-faced as a Methodist axe (adj.) under two, adj.
[UK] M. Pugh Chancer 128: Never mind him, Jock. Yatter, yatter, yatter when he’s worked up.
at yatter, n.
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