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[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 73: He knew the rag-tag-and-bob-tailed bastards well.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 139: ‘How is he, then?’ – the arse-crawling bastard.
at arse crawl (v.) under arse, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 150: The drivers no doubt fed up with seeing the same fat-arsed pantechnicon.
at fat-arse, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 167: Every proud-arsed bullshitting bowler-hatted toffee-nosed publisher.
at -arsed, sfx
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 97: The traffic was flowing like water, not a hitch anywhere, so what about another one-way system, to balls it all up?
at balls up, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 33: If he had survived as a basket case there would have been no one like Jenny to look after him.
at basket case (n.) under basket, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 181: It’s a bastard, isn’t it?
at bastard, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 114: Brenda used to plonk herself in the same place to lighten the mood before going up the wooden hill when Jack was on nights.
at Bedfordshire, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 32: That bleddy miserable husband she’s got to look after. A right bleddy burden he is.
at bladdy, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 12: And you fucked her blind on the sofa.
at blind, adv.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 32: That bleddy miserable husband she’s got to look after. A right bleddy burden he is.
at bloody, adv.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 216: Maybe I should have bolted as well.
at bolt, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 86: I’m stony broke. I ain’t even got the price of a pint.
at stone broke, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 64: The older you get the more people around you kick the bucket.
at kick the bucket, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 92: But I still like nudging into your front bumpers.
at bumper, n.3
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 85: Only me to carry the can, except I jacked work in when the firm went bust.
at carry the can (for) (v.) under can, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 75: She couldn’t endure his carryings on at the way she carried on, and in any case he absolutely couldn’t stand the way she carried on.
at carry on, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 75: He could no longer put up with her carryings on.
at carrying-on, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 170: The country must at one time have been chock-a-block with puffing billies.
at chockablock, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 201: An old chokka at the bar asked why I was looking so white in the gills.
at chokka, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 187: What a fucking surprise he would get. He would jump twenty feet, notebooks and clobber.
at clobber, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 36: The girl’s fat brute of a father collared him on his way out of work.
at collar, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 117: They’ve got my mug in a thousand copshops.
at cop shop (n.) under cop, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 64: Somebody had punched the crap out of him.
at crap, the, phr.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 36: Brian was getting plenty of crumpet.
at crumpet, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 18: A young soldier in his early twenties, he queued to be measured for his demob suit.
at demob suit (n.) under demob, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 174: After demob he never wore a hat again.
at demob, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 138: In spite of her brown coat and sweater he knew she could still doll up to the nines for a Saturday night out.
at doll up, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 56: I know when I’m done in.
at done in, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Birthday 98: Those who spouted that the family was done for had grown up with more than he’d had as a kid.
at done for, adj.
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