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[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 173: ‘Won’t be two shakes of a lamb’s what-you-call it,’ he said.
at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 188: I could tell you a thing or three.
at know a thing or two, v.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 191: The pictures gave you the creeping habdabs.
at abdabs, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 42: Get organized – you know, feet under the Cain-and-Abel.
at Cain and Abel, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 139: ‘It’s a bastard,’ he said. ‘As the bishop said to the actress,’ said Dusty.
at as the actress said to the bishop, phr.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 71: Wasn’t on the apples-and-pears, ain’t got there yet, so up you.
at apples (and pears), n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 276: Finished tearing me up for arse-paper yet?
at tear someone up for arse-paper, v.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 201: ‘That man Miller is a menace,’ said Purney. [...] ‘What you would call a barrack-room lawyer,’ said Steve.
at barrack-room lawyer, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 21: I’m gonner bash him up.
at bash up (v.) under bash, v.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 141: He and Dusty laughed like bastards, and she shrugged.
at like a bastard (adv.) under bastard, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 242: I was beastly to Mr Woodgate.
at beastly, adj.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 195: All the sentimental bilge so easy to take the micky out of.
at bilge, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 42: A little dicky-bird must have told me.
at dicky-bird, n.1
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 17: She had this dirty great bogey up her nose.
at bogey, n.3
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 188: She’s the one that went stark raving bonkers.
at stark staring bonkers, adj.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 191: ‘Jewboys,’ said Dusty, ‘yids.’.
at Jew boy, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 179: ‘If I have any buck from any of ’em [...] I’ll cook ’em in a stew for tomorrow’s dinner.’ All the children laughed.
at buck, n.4
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 162: Suddenly, the music stopped as though something had gone for a burton.
at go for a Burton (v.) under Burton, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 28: You on the cadge again?
at on the (grand) cadge under cadge, the, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 191: One or two drawings of nice chesty breastfuls just about to get stripped off for the whip or the old you-know-what.
at chesty, adj.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 265: ‘I think Goldilocks has had his chips.’ ‘The push?’ he said.
at have (had) one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 21: Your Mum wouldn’t half have cleaned her.
at clean, v.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 95: Not the only one, clever dick.
at clever dick, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 26: As she’s cried copper so often she bloody well had to.
at cry copper (v.) under copper, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 87: Like the typewriter salesman Steve always said he would have been a cracker at.
at cracker, n.6
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 191: The pictures gave you the creeping habdabs.
at creeping, adj.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 58: Care to join us in a cupper, Mrs Southcott?
at cuppa, n.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 90: Richie was a nice piece in her own way [...] could be a dish if only she’d take the trouble.
at dish, n.1
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 67: It’s some of ours right enough, don’t you worry.
at right enough, phr.
[UK] G.W. Target Teachers (1962) 192: I’m fed-up to the back teeth with all this caper.
at fed up, adj.
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