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[UK] (con. 1950) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 9: All right, mard-arse! Where’s she hidden them?
at mard-arse, n.
[UK] (con. 1961) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 1: I’m not surprised. Rate you’ve been knocking them back.
at knock back, v.
[UK] (con. 1961) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 11: I couldn’t help myself, you daft bat!
at bat, n.1
[UK] (con. 1961) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 81: Hip, hip, hoo-bloody-ray.
at bloody, adv.
[UK] (con. 1950) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 10: Get them flogged. Bring me the brass.
at brass, n.1
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 11: If that’s what money does for you, I’ll burn the bugger!
at bugger, n.1
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 97: Newspapers, of course, are newspapers. The more you bugger up your life, the more they like it.
at bugger up, v.
[UK] (con. 1962) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 52: Shooting-brake buggered again?
at buggered, adj.2
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 47: All I could think was ... if he’s dead, that’s my sexual happening gone for a burton!
at go for a Burton (v.) under Burton, n.
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 74: I cadged a pair of nylons and a pair of shoes from our Jessie.
at cadge, v.
[UK] (con. 1954) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 25: Shut your bloody cake-hole!
at cakehole (n.) under cake, n.1
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 65: I don’t think they’ve ever heard of vegetables ... sprouts or a nice cauli.
at cauli, n.
[UK] (con. 1961) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 21: They’ve got none, chuck.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 7: My dad was too busy to work. Half the time he was on Lloyd George, and the other half in clink.
at clink, n.1
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 63: I was in the pudding club again, wasn’t I?
at pudding club, n.
[UK] (con. 1950) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 4: When you’ve washed your hands, cock.
at cock, n.2
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 60: I played it cool when I saw him. Hard to get. I played it cool for – oh – nearly twenty minutes ...
at play it cool (v.) under cool, adv.
[UK] (con. 1950) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 13: Cracking on it’s a scarf. Lipstick. Lads. You’re going the right way, aren’t you?
at crack on, v.2
[UK] (con. 1961) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 11: Crikey! How much did that lot come to?
at crikey!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1961) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 19: You’ll get your beer and Woodbines, you bloody deadleg! I won’t see you short!
at dead leg (n.) under dead, adj.
[UK] (con. 1961) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 72: It’s like the third degree in this house!
at third degree, n.
[UK] (con. 1961) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 17: I expect his missus’ll do it in for him.
at do in, v.
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 78: The police took away Keith’s shotguns in case I tried to do myself in.
at do in, v.
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 91: I did the car in a few hundred times.
at do in, v.
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 4: My dad always fed his face off the mantelpiece. He said it was because he never knew where the chairs were.
at feed one’s face, v.
[UK] (con. 1962) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 51: We did a moonlight flit.
at moonlight flit, n.
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 67: Keith also forked out thirty bob a week for a baby called Kim who he reckoned to be the father of.
at fork out, v.
[UK] J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 24: I was married in white – three months gone with our Stephen.
at gone, adj.2
[UK] (con. 1950) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 4: Aye, aye, it’s landed! Speedy Gonzales.
at speedy Gonzales, n.
[UK] (con. 1957) J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 59: dad: You can go back to Matthew. vivian: I can hell-as-like.
at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
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