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Educating Rita choose

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[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I iii: You mean, it’s all right to go out an’ have a bit of slap an’ tickle with the lads as long as you don’t go home an’ tell your mum?
at slap and tickle, n.2
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita II vii: What do you think I’ll do? Aussie? It’s a paradise for the likes of me.
at Aussie, n.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita II ii: frank: All right, but please stop burbling on about Mr Tyson. / rita: I haven’t been burbling on.
at burble, v.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I ii: frank: What in the name of God is being off one’s cake? rita: Soft. Y’ know, mental.
at off one’s cake (adj.) under cake, n.1
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I vii: I wanna talk seriously with the rest of you, I don’t wanna spend the night takin’ the piss, comin’ on with the funnies because that’s the only way I can get into the conversation.
at come on strong (v.) under come on, v.1
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I i: Look, I know I take the piss an’ that but I’m dead serious really.
at dead, adv.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I ii: frank: She’s very caring, very tolerant, admires me enormously and spends a great deal of time putting her head in the oven. rita: Does she try an’ do herself in?
at do oneself in (v.) under do in, v.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I i: It’s the aristocracy that swears more than anyone, isn’t it? They’re effin’ and blindin’ all day long.
at eff and blind (v.) under eff, v.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita II i: We had this lecturer though, he was a real Blake freak.
at -freak, sfx
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I vii: An’ I stood in that pub an’ thought, just what the frig am I trying to do?
at frig, n.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I i: Y’ know when I’m in the hairdresser’s – that’s where I work – I’ll say somethin’ like, ‘Oh, I’m really fucked’, y’ know, dead loud. It doesn’t half cause a fuss.
at fucked, adj.1
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I v: I said to him, y’ soft get, even if I was havin’ an affair there’s no point burnin’ me books.
at get, n.1
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita II iii: You’d tell them, wouldn’t you? You’d tell them where to get off.
at tell someone where to get off (v.) under get off, v.3
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita II iii: An’ you’re still treating me as though I’m hung up on Rubyfruit Jungle.
at hung up on under hung up, adj.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I ii: Is this the absolute maximum I can expect from this livin’ lark?
at lark, n.2
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I iv: He’s got me licked, I don’t know what he’s on about.
at licked, adj.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I ii: It’s crap because the feller who wrote it was a louse.
at louse, n.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I i: rita: Do you understand that? frank: Yes. rita: Yeh. They wouldn’t round our way. They’d think I was mental.
at mental, adj.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I v: Don’t you think that for tonight we could give the class a miss?
at give someone/something a miss (v.) under miss, n.2
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita II vii: Tiger’s asked me to go down to France with his mob.
at mob, n.2
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I i: You know if I’m readin’, or watchin’ somethin’ different on the telly he gets dead narked.
at narked, adj.
[UK] Willy Russell Educating Rita I i: Yes, that’s it, you just pop off and put your head in the oven.
at pop off, v.1
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I i: I hate smokin’ on me own. An’ everyone seems to have packed up these days.
at pack up (v.) under pack, v.1
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I i: frank: Borrow it. Read it. rita: Ta... If I pack the course in I’ll post it to y’.
at pack in (v.) under pack, v.1
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I i: Look, I know I take the piss an’ that but I’m dead serious really.
at take the piss (out of) (v.) under piss, the, phr.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I vii: It wouldn’t have mattered it you’d walked in with a bottle of Spanish plonk.
at plonk, n.2
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita Iv: I said to him, y’ soft get, even if I was havin’ an affair there’s no point burnin’ me books. I’m not havin’ it off with Anton Chekhov. He said, ‘I wouldn’t put it past you to shack up with a foreigner.’.
at shack up (with), v.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I i: He manages a gulp at the whisky before he picks up the receiver and although his speech is not slurred, we should recognize the voice of a man who shifts a lot of booze.
at shift, v.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita II v: You would have thrown it across the room and dismissed it as a heap of shit, wouldn’t you?
at shit, n.
[UK] W. Russell Educating Rita I ii: Ratatouille. Though Julia has renamed it the ‘stopouts dish’. It can simmer in an oven for days.
at stop-out (n.) under stop, v.
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