1977 P. Reading ‘Sonnet’ in Nothing For Anyone 10: Why can’t you do […] the real nitty-gritty, ‘I regret / having had you back when you’d had it away / with that bitch!’.at have it away (with), v.2
1977 P. Reading ‘Diptyche’ in Nothing For Anyone 15: Then that little bloke (what was his name? He / seemed always half-cut, / Reading or something).at half-cut, adj.2
1977 P. Reading ‘Eavesdropped’ in Nothing For Anyone 39: Jim was a lark today in the Rose & Crown.at lark, n.2
1977 P. Reading ‘Travalogue’ Nothing For Anyone 30: Now it’s August and it’s pissing down.at piss, v.
1977 P. Reading ‘Travalogue’ in Nothing For Anyone 30: It used to be a tiny place until – / a bunch of whizz-kid architects had done / their stuff.at do one’s stuff (v.) under stuff, n.
1977 P. Reading ‘Eavesdropped’ in Nothing For Anyone 40: She’s got a darling baby boy and now / I’m knitting woollies ready for another.at woolies, n.