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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning choose

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[UK] Lytton Night and Morning v ii n.p.: Inquiries about your respectability would soon bring the bulkies about me [F&H].
at bulky, n.
[UK] Lytton Night and Morning v. Ch. ii: A private room and a pint of brandy, my dear. Hot water and lots of the grocery .
at groceries, n.1
[UK] Lytton Night and Morning II 298: I must be off – tempus fugit, and I must arrive just in time to nick the vessels.
at nick, v.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 149: ‘He must be all there,’ his mother said about her brother, pointing to her temples, ‘to make the money he makes.’.
at all there, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 82: Gin-and-orange? I’ll have a black-and-tan.
at black-and-tan, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 68: Royal flush, my arse!
at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 15: He had put away more swill than Loudmouth.
at put away, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 33: [He] took backchat with a wry smile and a good face.
at backchat, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 13: He knocked his leg on the bicycle pedal, swearing at the pain, complaining at Jack’s barminess for leaving it in such an exposed position.
at barmy, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 22: [of spots] An air in which pimples grew and prospered on your face and shoulders [...] if you did not spend half an hour over the scullery sink every night getting rid of the biggest bastards.
at bastard, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 116: It’s a bastard, though, having to go back to the Army every year.
at it’s a bastard under bastard, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 44: He must know: no man is that batchy.
at batchy, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 126: They had come out for a night on the batter, he said to himself.
at batter, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 6: The cuffs came down to the hairs of self-assurance on the back of his beefy hands.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 156: The two swaddies had got him at last [...] and had bested him.
at best, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 80: [He] pushed his way through crowds gathered around Slab Square Bible-punchers and soap-box orators.
at bible-puncher (n.) under bible, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 173: What about them Bible-backs? They’re allus there wi’ their ha’ penny.
at bibleback, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 81: She threatened to bif him one if he didn’t stop.
at biff, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 114: The big-headed bastard that [...] asks me to go to union meetings.
at big-headed (adj.) under big head, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 7: He begrudged big talkers their unearned glory.
at big talk, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 177: I’m a bloody billy-goat trying to screw the world, and no wonder I am, because it’s trying to do the same to me.
at billy-goat, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 5: It was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week.
at binge, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 48: But Jack, unlike the fish, [...] did not bite either.
at bite, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 61: I’d better not blab my mouth and tell her why I want the advice.
at blab, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 67: But nobody took a blind bit of notice of him.
at blind, adj.2
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 24: The gaffer ran out of his office when he heard her screaming blue-murder.
at blue murder, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 169: [We] got two crates of beer out of the pub cellar next door. [...] We had a good booze-up from that.
at booze-up, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 127: Irish navvies sometimes gathered there to booze away the last of their wages.
at booze, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 132: I’ll get some [glasses] some day. They wouldn’t suit me though. I’d look too much like a boss-eyed bookie.
at boss-eyed, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 25: They’d be down on me like a ton of bricks.
at like a ton of brick(s) (adv.) under brick, n.
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