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My Friend Judas choose

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[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 50: All my eye and Lady Chatterley, I said, and staggered to Mary without seeing a thing.
at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 58: Other people’s bellyaches over blow-all make me sweat blood.
at bugger all, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 112: Odeons. Woolies. Marks and Sparkses. ABC cafés.
at M and S, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 153: Johnny was a baby-faced Etonian aristo.
at aristo, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 51: This Old Faithful and Fauntleroy act really does give me a pain in the bum.
at give someone a pain in the arse (v.) under pain in the arse, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 61: Those eighteenth-century French bums who weren’t philosophers and would have sold their mothers for any baksheesh from the Bourbons.
at baksheesh, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 97: Your language is that of a bargee trying to speak like a bishop.
at bargee, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 49: Sometimes I reckon I’ll wander off on an eternal bat.
at on a bat under bat, n.3
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 39: Beelzebub, you take the biscuit.
at take the biscuit, v.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 161: She really began to howl. You’d think they’d take away your tears with your youth and your sight. No, no, you just keep right on blubbing when you’re blind.
at blub, v.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 31: Rarefied taste bongs you on the conk.
at bong, v.1
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 37: She’d given him the bounce.
at give someone the bounce (v.) under bounce, n.1
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 90: I didn’t want to talk about it. I was cheesed.
at cheesed (off), adj.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 14: Only the dumb clucks can say they’re grateful and mean it.
at cluck, n.1
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 130: He really was a clueless kind of pill.
at clueless, adj.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 184: He probably voted Commie and read Proust.
at commie, adj.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 21: Dung. Sixteenth-century word for a corker. A smasher.
at corker, n.2
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 113: I slipped straight into my gadabouts, double-breasted D.J., white shirt with button-downs.
at D.J., n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 175: What a duck of a doll she was.
at duck, n.1
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 39: Then I landed him the old sockeroo slap bang in the gin-trap.
at -eroo, sfx
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 58: I can’t stand these goddam Eyetie dramatics.
at Eyetie, adj.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 161: These were the rich Eyeties, who didn’t know any better.
at Eyetie, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 130: Wise up wise guy. Wisdom’s more than a po-face and a big vocabulary.
at po-faced, adj.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 49: Stop fondling me, you damn fairy.
at fairy, n.1
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 107: His flab sagged down, his belly sat in a mooning bulge pathetically upon his thighs.
at flab, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 125: I must have flaked out for a few hours, because the next thing I knew was Jimmy shaking me by the shoulders.
at flake (out), v.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 39: Then I landed him the old sockeroo slap bang in the gin-trap.
at gin-trap (n.) under gin, n.4
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 14: It was all there. The godbox in the human pinch.
at God-box (n.) under God, n.1
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 113: Winkie, for once, must have given her the right sort of grift on me. She treated me good.
at grift, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 48: Normally a pair of codeines, but tonight they’d really been lashing at the gutrot.
at gut-rot (n.) under gut, n.
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