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Remembering How We Stood 66: Brendan would come in for a fag, or a ‘lend of a loan’ of half-note.at half a note, n.
Remembering How We Stood 66: Brendan would come in for a fag, or a ‘lend of a loan’ of half-note. Remembering How We Stood 91: I might have got off with a simple ‘Axe me arse’ – but even that I was in no mood to relish.at ask my...!, excl.
Remembering How We Stood 72: The trouble about this kind of ballyhoo is that the recipient begins to believe in it himself.at ballyhoo, n.
Remembering How We Stood 134: Of course, by this time all the well-known brands of cars had been cornered by the early birds.at early bird, n.1
Remembering How We Stood 25: ‘Weez is bonafeeds.’ [...] ‘Weez is travellers. Really, weez is’ [...] Under the new dispensation, the bona fide traveller could drink for one hour after the legal closing time.at bona fide, n.
Remembering How We Stood 136: The old days when the Black and Tan war was at its fiercest, some of the ‘boys’ on the run were given refuge in the house of a Mrs Clougherty .at boys, the, n.
Remembering How We Stood 89: Kavanagh admitted to having perpetrated only one Irish ‘bull’ in his life.at bull, n.2
Remembering How We Stood 97: He was still a bit of a ‘bun man’.at bun, n.2
Remembering How We Stood 43: The daddy of them all had been Jonathan Swift himself.at daddy, n.
Remembering How We Stood 107: The place is a total dread [...] you couldn’t have him in this squalid tenement.at dread, n.1
Remembering How We Stood 48: Is de grub all right? Grand. Game ball!at gameball, adj.
Remembering How We Stood 28: This pub was beginning a long history as a poetic glue-pot.at gluepot, n.1
Remembering How We Stood 63: ‘God’s teeth!’ I cried.at God’s teeth! (excl.) under God, n.1
Remembering How We Stood 136: Her speech had lost its refined ‘blas’ (for she had now substituted this with the ‘guttiest’ Dublin accent this side of Moore Street).at guttie, n.
Remembering How We Stood 25: Yeez will not hop the ball here.at hop the ball (v.) under hop, v.1
Remembering How We Stood 141: ‘Just a friend,’ replied Myles quietly [...] meanwhile ordering another hurler of malt.at hurler, n.
Remembering How We Stood 107: The man who was to come to fix the jacks, the lavatory.at jacks, n.2
Remembering How We Stood 73: Shortly after departure, the ’plane was struck by lightning. Brendan, who was in the jigs anyhow, reacted in fear-shaken fashion.at in the jigs (adj.) under jigs, n.
Remembering How We Stood 32: Wilfred Bramble (later to become famous as the elderly ‘junky’ in the television series ‘Steptoe and Son’).at junky, n.
Remembering How We Stood 136: Mrs Clougherty [...] gave them a last look as much as to say ‘shut up you lousers’ and made straight for the hall door.at louser, n.
Remembering How We Stood 75: One of the last of his ‘minders’ [...] told me how he would be dragged from bed at any old hour of the night by Brendan, who would arrive in a taxi, to commence the day’s marathon of drinking.at minder, n.
Remembering How We Stood 105: Sure if it isn’t the bould Paddy Kavanagh he sel’ that’s after wandering over from the four fair green fields of the ould sod itself.at Old Sod, n.
Remembering How We Stood 139: If we could have delayed this ossification to the ‘Circe’ episode it would have been more in accordance with the structure of Ulysses.at ossified, adj.
Remembering How We Stood 35: He was a devout anti-puritan. He was a very great piss-taker.at piss-taker, n.
Remembering How We Stood 142: ‘Sports-king’ was an echo of Dublin small talk, nineteen-thirty vintage – the nearest contemporary expression would be ‘piss-artist’.at piss artist (n.) under piss, n.
Remembering How We Stood 69: The definition of an Irish ‘queer’ is supposed to be ‘a man that prefers women to drink’.at queer, n.
Remembering How We Stood 13: The stuff has to be transported [...] across half the globe in ancient leaky rust-buckets.at rust bucket (n.) under rust, n.
Remembering How We Stood 74: A myth that [...] is typical of the kind of smaltz that infests the more yellow journalism on such melancholy occasions.at schmaltz, n.
Remembering How We Stood 108: It was a description that an old shellback had once given me.at shell-back (n.) under shell, n.
Remembering How We Stood 74: Behan, though generous in many ways [...] was notoriously tight-fisted when it came to buying a round in the company of his coevals – ‘slow on the draw’, as they used to say.at slow on the draw (adj.) under slow, adj.
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