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A Start in Life choose

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[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 95: I just put on the windscreen wipers, which naturally made knock-all difference.
at knock-all, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 182: From the Arch to the Gate, through the Bush to the Scrubs.
at Arch, the, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 34: After lots of argy-bargy it appeared that the man in the sports car had offered the full asking price.
at argy-bargy, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 343: Nobody’ll trace you [...] you’ll be safe as houses and right as rain.
at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 160: If I’d followed him to the letter I’d have been out on my arse in no time.
at out on one’s ass under ass, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 81: Maybe we’ll find out the name of the bandit who did it.
at bandit, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 59: I bought some drink at a beer-off.
at beer-off (n.) under beer, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 54: I held back the belly-laughs.
at belly laugh (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 117: Thick clouds were belting across the woods.
at belt, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 314: Take this money and have a binge on bread and jam.
at binge, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 257: But tell me the stuff on this bint that’s got your heart going up and down like a yo-yo.
at bint, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 256: What’s biting you, then?
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 273: Michael bloody who?
at bloody, adv.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 379: I’d bought a bottle of brandy for the occasion, and poured everyone a shot after the blow-out dinner.
at blow-out, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 81: It ain’t so bad. She’ll go like a bomb again.
at like a bomb (adv.) under bomb, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 326: Business picked up after the war when we booted Churchill out.
at boot out (v.) under boot, v.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 258: I thought she was right off her pot.
at out of one’s box (adj.) under box, n.3
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 54: BASTARD’S GRANDAD KICKS THE BUCKET.
at kick the bucket, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 182: There was a striptease joint where men peeled off to the buff in some corny act or other.
at buff, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 347: If he pansies after a young man he’s buggering his son [...] If he gets off with an older man he’s being bummed by his father.
at bum, v.5
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 185: One crumby pub was bunged up to the gills.
at bunged up, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 79: Can’t this grim bus go any quicker?
at bus, n.2
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 182: From the Arch to the Gate, through the Bush to the Scrubs.
at Bush, the, n.2
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 92: You have everything buttoned up.
at buttoned up, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 234: ‘All right,’ I said. ‘Stop the cackle. I can’t stand it so early in the morning’.
at cackle, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 71: I’m a bastard, a real no-good, genuine twenty-two-carat bastard in every sense of the word.
at twenty-four carat, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 105: It was hard to say whether he was the greatest card of them all, or just plain stupid.
at card, n.2
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 363: Don’t the others ever chaff you?
at chaff, v.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 24: My flesh-rod went sliding chock-a-block into her.
at chockablock, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 22: He’s got his eyes on another girl and he’s wondering whether to chuck you up.
at chuck up, v.2
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