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(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 227: If he don’t get the Victoria Cross for this stunt I’m a bloody Dutchman.at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 227: If he don’t get the Victoria Cross for this stunt I’m a bloody Dutchman. (con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 168: ‘We’ll have to surrender!’ [...] ‘Surrender my bloody arse!’ shouted Hammer Lane.at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 134: This [...] war correspondent [...] was a great romancer and wrote the biggest B.S. of them all.at b.s., n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 96: He informed me that it was a bloody bake as Smith had stopped it through the pound.at bake, n.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 17: Duffy said: ‘We’ll have a bang at the bastards to-day.’.at bang, n.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 56: We didn’t want to use force on an old lady [...] so we gave her best.at give someone best (v.) under best (of it), n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 106: There were always young ladies soliciting [...] I was never foolish enough to go with one of those birds.at bird, n.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 83: Ving blong was very cheap [...] a man could get a decent pint and a half bottle for a franc.at vin blong, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 222: We were [...] getting all the enjoyment we could before going back to the blood-tub [i.e. the front line].at blood tub (n.) under blood, n.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 289: You bloody liar [...] For two pins I’d blow your bloody lights out.at blow out someone’s light(s) (v.) under blow out, v.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 148: ‘Oh, Monsieur Nutty, Allemenge Boko Bombard.’ ‘Yes [...] and in one minute Monsieur Nutty Boko Bombard too.’.at boko, adj.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 32: We had a brush-up with some German Uhlans.at brush-up (n.) under brush, v.3
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 119: If a teetotaller he was known as a ‘char wallah’, ‘bun-puncher’ or ‘wad-shifter.’ [Ibid.] 207: A bloody bun-punching swine.at bun-puncher (n.) under bun, n.3
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 118: Anyone would think we were going to have a cake walk.at cakewalk, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 119: If a teetotaller he was known as a ‘char wallah’, ‘bun-puncher’ or ‘wad-shifter.’.at char wallah (n.) under cha, n.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 31: We all admired the Adjutant very much: he could give us all chalks on at swearing and beat the lot of us.at give someone chalks on (v.) under chalk, n.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 38: Buffalo Bill [...] wouldn’t have given him that chance, but soon put daylight through him.at let the daylight into/through (v.) under daylight, n.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 46: Ours [i.e. rifles] were done up too.at done up, adj.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 195: Once in India he had a touch of the sun, which we old soldiers called the ‘Deolalie Tap.’.at doolally tap, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 100: I have read [...] about troops in the War being doped with rum before going into action.at dope, v.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 26: Some [of our men] were drumming up – that is, making tea.at drum up, v.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 53: He didn’t want a bloody lot of frog-eating bastards gaping at him.at frog-eater, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 107: The majority of us were up on the parapet working and cursing flashes.at flashes, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 224: He had played up holy hell with the Colonel.at play (merry) hell with (v.) under hell, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 122: He had come across the storeman [...] about three sheets in the wind.at three sheets in the wind, phr.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 256: The bank clerk, architect and Sealyham had also arrived back and we all had a muck in.at muck in, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 196: He said that he has heard that yarn before and that we old soldiers were all the same, we thought we knew everything and that every old soldier he had met had given him the jerks.at give someone the jerks (v.) under jerks, n.1
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 147: He was a nut. He was a proper Don Juan among the ladies.at knut, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 322: I have come to the conclusion that lead-swingers and dodgers get the best of it.at lead-swinger, n.
(con. WWI) Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 106: When a man is between twenty and thirty nature rules his brain.at nature, n.
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