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‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ in Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 11: I’m going to feel as hot as a pot-bellied stove, and as happy as a dog with a tin tail.at ...a dog with two tails under happy as..., adj.
‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ in Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 11: I’m going to feel as hot as a pot-bellied stove, and as happy as a dog with a tin tail. ‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 24: I looked at an everloving babe of a brand-new typewriter.at babe, n.
‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ in Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 14: No, it doesn’t get my back up, because it’s always been up, right from when I was born.at get someone’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
‘The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 123: You went out into the snow with your topcoat on, which was more than any of the other little ragbags in the yard wore.at rag bag, n.
‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 11: It’s a good life [...] if you don’t give in to coppers and Borstal-bosses and the rest of them bastard-faced In-laws.at bastard-faced (adj.) under bastard, n.
‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ in Loneliness of Long-Distance Runner (1960) 31: ‘Ain’t it next door to a pub, then?’ I wanted to know. He answered me sharp: ‘No, it bloody well aint.’... ‘Then I don’t know it,’ I told him, saved by the bell.at saved by the bell (adj.) under bell, n.1
‘On Saturday Afternoon’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 102: I’ve never known a family to look as black as our family when they’re fed-up.at black, adj.
‘The Match’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 111: I knew they’d bleddy-well lose.at bloody, adv.
‘Noah’s Ark’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 99: He’s still after you, so let’s blow.at blow, v.1
‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 86: I [...] became even too far gone to turn religious or go on the booze.at on the booze under booze, n.
‘On Saturday Afternoon’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 102: I once saw him broodier than I’d ever seen him.at broody, adj.
‘Noah’s Ark’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 98: As though he were a tent from which ten buck-navvies were trying to escape.at buck, adj.1
‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ in Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 31: Mike thought we should take it out and both of us do a bunk to Skegness.at do a/the bunk (v.) under bunk, n.1
‘On Saturday Afternoon’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 104: Next day she cackled on the other side of her face.at cackle, v.
‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 73: You miss a woman when she’s been living with you [...] for six years, no matter what sort of cat-and-dog life you led together.at cat and dog life (n.) under cat, n.1
‘The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 126: Mrs Scarfedale didn’t know I was chiking.at chi-ike, v.
‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 81: I could have got it for less, but I’d rather pay an extra bob than go through five minutes of chinning.at chin, v.
‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ in Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 23: ‘I came, I broke, I entered,’ like that clever-dick Borstal song.at clever-dick, adj.
‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ in Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 15: That knife is Borstal, clink, the rope.at clink, n.1
‘The Match’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 116: He had been up before the gaffer [...] for clouting the mash-lad who had called him Cock-eye in front of the office girl.at clout, v.1
‘On Saturday Afternoon’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 109: The bloke looked hard, as if every one of the copper’s words meant six-months cold.at cold, adv.
‘Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 133: They collared him and he was put inside for eighteen months.at collar, v.
‘The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 131: He thought I was cracked even more than he was himself.at cracked, adj.
‘On Saturday Afternoon’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 102: I thought he’d gone crackers in a quiet sort of way.at go crackers (v.) under crackers, adj.
‘The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 129: She said she’d die if she ever married a bloke as worked in an office and who crawled around his boss because he wanted to get on.at crawl, v.1
‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 72: You booky bastard [...] nowt but books, books, books, you bleddy dead-’ead.at deadhead, n.
‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 79: I hadn’t kept it there for sentimental reasons, so perhaps I should have dished it.at dish, v.
‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 27: Another pal of ours who’d done a factory office about six months before.at do, v.1
‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 74: I was at home, smoking my pipe in the backyard at the fag-end of an autumn day.at fag end, n.
‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 24: I looked at an everloving babe of a brand-new typewriter.at ever-loving, adj.
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