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John Bull’s Other Island choose

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[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act I: More power to your elbow! an may your shadda never be less! for youre the broth of a boy intirely.
at broth of a boy, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island II ii: Galong with you!
at get along with you!, excl.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act III: Take care we don’t cut the cable ourselves some day, bad scran to you!
at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act III: In Roscullen a yeoman means a sort of Orange Bashi-Bazouk.
at bashi-bazouk, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act III: Dhats the style, begob!
at begorra!, excl.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act III: You tike the biscuit at thet, you do.
at take the biscuit, v.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act I: Very friendly of you, Larry, old man, but all blarney. I like blarney; but it’s rot, all the same.
at blarney, n.1
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island IV i: Begob, it just tore the town in two and sent the whole dam market to blazes.
at blazes, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island II ii: You bosthoon, you!
at bosthoon, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island IV i: Dhere was Patsy Farrll in the back sate wi dhe pig between his knees, n me bould English boyoh in front at the machinery.
at boyo, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island II ii: Oh, you’ve a dale to say for yourself, you butther-fingered omadhaun.
at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act III: Ow, chack it, Paddy. Cheese it.
at cheese it!, excl.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island IV ii: While you slave like bees for it [...] and to crack up your own Irish heroism.
at crack up, v.1
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act III: Come on, you old croaker! I’ll shew you how to win an Irish seat.
at croaker, n.1
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act IV: broadbent: [in the highest feather]. Not a bit. By George, Nora, it’s a tremendous thing to be able to enjoy oneself.
at in high feather under feather, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act I: I don’t want to interrupt you, Larry; but you know this is all gammon.
at gammon, n.2
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island II ii: Yah, you great gaum, you!
at gom, n.2
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act III: Orse! Wy, you silly aowl rotter, it’s not a orse: it’s a mowtor.
at motor, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island IV ii: Well, we mustnt be stiff and stand-off, you know.
at stand-off, adj.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island II ii: Oh, you’ve a dale to say for yourself, you butther-fingered omadhaun.
at omadhaun, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island II ii: You can take the sammin under your oxther.
at oxter, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act I: broadbent: [pouring whisky] Say when.
at say when under say, v.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island Act III: The farmer’s the real backbone o the country, n doesnt care a snap of his fingers for the shoutn o the riff-raff in the towns.
at not care a snap (v.) under snap, n.2
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island IV ii: Why cant you say a simple thing simply, Karry, without all that Irish exaggeration and talky-talky?
at talky-talk, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island IV ii: Haffigan had better go to America, or into the Union, poor old chap! He’s worked out, you know.
at Union, the, n.
[UK] G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island IV i: When I see the windbags, the carpet-baggers, the charlatans, the – the – the fools and ignoramuses.
at windbag, n.
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