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Rhymes of a Red Cross Man choose

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[Can] R. Service ‘The Black Dudeen’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 138: And cold! A monkey of brass would freeze.
at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
[Can] R. Service ‘My Prisoner’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 121: I’ll let yer ’ave a rifle ball instead.
at ball, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Ballad of Soulful Sam’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 108: When it came down to the Scriptures, say! Wasn’t he just a bird!
at bird, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Red Retreat’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 32: A-scurryin’ before ’em like a lot of blurry rabbits.
at blurry, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Ballad of Soulful Sam’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 111: No, siree! not by a long sight!
at no siree (bob)!, excl.
[Can] R. Service ‘Bill’s Grave’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 84: I makes me way to the boneyard.
at boneyard, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Black Dudeen’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 138: Then Micky, he cops one bad [...] Says he: ‘Old chummy, I’m booked right through.’.
at booked, adj.1
[Can] R. Service ‘A Pot of Tea’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 127: Tonight, by Fritz’s camp-fire, won’t I ’ave a gorgeous brew / (For fightin’ mustn’t interfere with Tea).
at brew, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘Funk’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 59: You’re sqeamish in the belly, / And you wants to turn about and do a bunk.
at do a/the bunk (v.) under bunk, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘A Pot of Tea’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 127: I’ve gurgled pints of cham.
at cham, n.2
[Can] R. Service ‘The Black Dudeen’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 138: Then Micky, he goes and cops one bad.
at cop one (v.) under cop, v.
[Can] R. Service ‘My Job’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 176: I’m sorry for those perishers that corpses in a bed.
at corpse, v.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Odyssey of ’Erbert ’Iggins’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 48: By cracky! old feller, they’ve seen us.
at cracky!, excl.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Little Piou-Piou’ Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 150: So grimy and hard, so calloused and scarred, / So ‘crummy,’ yet gay as can be.
at crummy, adj.2
[Can] R. Service ‘My Job’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 175: I’ve been in many ’ot old ‘do’s’; I’ve scraped through safe some’ow.
at do, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘My Prisoner’ Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 121: You keep ’em stuck, / Them saucy dooks o’ yours, above yer ’ead.
at dook, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘A Pot of Tea’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 187: All kinds of fancy foreign dope, from caffy and doo lay.
at dope, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Ballad of Soulful Sam’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 109: He always ’ad tracts in his pocket [...] I used to read ’em religious, and frequent I’ve been impressed / By some of them bundles of ’oly dope he carried around in his vest.
at dope, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Odyssey of ’Erbert ’Iggins’ Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 48: My flipper is mashed to a jelly.
at flipper, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘Funk’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 59: Don’t let your mateys know it— / You’re just sufferin’ from funk, funk, funk.
at funk, n.2
[Can] R. Service ‘Funk’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 59: You’re duckin’ all the bullets, / And you’re green as gorgonzola round the gills.
at green about the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Odyssey of ’Erbert ’Iggins’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 48: ’Anged lucky we aren’t booked through.
at hanged, adv.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Volunteer’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 21: The wife and nippers, wot of ’em I say, / If I gets knocked out in this blasted war? / Gets proper busted by a shell, / But – wot the ’ell, Bill? Wot the ’ell?
at what the hell!, excl.
[Can] R. Service ‘Afternoon Tea’ Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 187: That little job was over, so hell for leather we ran.
at hell for leather (adv.) under hell, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘My Mate’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 65: That bleedin’ bullet got ’im on the lid.
at lid, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘Funk’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 59: Don’t let your mateys know it— / You’re just sufferin’ from funk, funk, funk.
at matey, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Whistle of Sandy McGraw’ Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 153: The big stuff wis gorin’ and roarin’ around, / And I seemed tae be under the oxter o’ hell.
at oxter, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘Bill’s Grave’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 82: Bill copped a packet proper, and took ’is departure West.
at cop a packet (v.) under packet, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Black Dudeen’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 140: A parcel o’ lead comes missing me head, / But it smashes me old dudeen.
at parcel, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Ballad of Soulful Sam’ Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 109: Cards! They’ve been me ruin. They’ve taken me pride and me pelf.
at pelf, n.
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