1989 R.E. Tangney Other Days Around Me 126: The more strenuous exertions of ‘cutting a rug’ at a local dance-hall.at cut the rug, v.
1989 R.E. Tangney Other Days Around Me 133: This was a good start: my first salaried job and I was making a hames of it.at make a hames (v.) under hames, n.
1989 R.E. Tangney Other Days Around Me 133: ‘What did you let him in for?’ roared the angry widow. ‘He’s the biggest latchico in town.’.at latchico, n.
1989 R.E. Tangney Other Days Around Me 91: It was an invitation to become a squealer, a copper’s nark, to sell Danny down the river.at nark, n.1
1989 R.E. Tangney Other Days Around Me 91: It was an invitation to become a squealer, a copper’s nark, to sell Danny down the river.at sell down the river (v.) under sell, v.
1989 R.E. Tangney Other Days Around Me 91: It was an invitation to become a squealer, a copper’s nark, to sell Danny down the river.at squealer, n.1
1989 R.E. Tangney Other Days Around Me 188: It was easy to pick out the hardened travellers from the first-timers; the smiling groups contrasted strongly with those that were providing the water-works.at waterworks, n.