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Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two choose

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[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 48: Barry? A boozer? ‘I mean, ’as he had a few from time to time?’.
at have a few (v.) under few, a, n.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 266: If you mess around with her and bollix things up for the rest of us [...] I’ll give you more than a flash.
at mess about, v.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 223: ‘What’s he on about?’ said Oz, bewildered.
at on about, phr.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 318: Dennis had got Ally by the short and curlies all right.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 113: This place is on the up and up.
at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 93: If your mood’s going to affect your game, we’ll double the ante.
at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 327: Then he went ape.
at go ape (v.) under ape, adj.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 175: I knew we’d twist the bastard’s arm all right.
at twist someone’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 109: He’s surrounded by so many arse-lickers.
at arse-licker (n.) under arse-lick, v.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 213: Get your hairy arses round the back!
at arse, n.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 4: But it sure as hell paid the bills.
at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 109: I’m not getting at you, Dennis. I’m just concerned.
at get at, v.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 79: He’s done a backdoor deal where he’s bought the house for way below its market value. There’s a word for that, and it’s fraud.
at back-door, adj.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 23: Den’s knocking back the hard stuff, isn’t he?
at knock back, v.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 42: I’m in for a right bollocking here.
at ballocking, n.2
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 25: It doesn’t seem to cross your tiny mind that your being breathalysed totally bolluxed up my evening. [Ibid.] 266: If you mess around with her and bollix things up for the rest of us [...] I’ll give you more than a flash.
at ballocks (up), v.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 34: ‘Cheap at the price, son,’ he said. ‘B-bollocks,’ said Moxey.
at ballocks!, excl.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 279: That didn’t sound like a barrel of laughs.
at barrel, n.1
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 154: They might just repossess the houses and kick you all out without a bean.
at bean, n.1
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 133: They were commodities for the profit of the likes of Ally Fraser and this eager-beaver young man on the make.
at eager beaver, adj.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 182: Would I lie to my big sister [...] knowing the belting she’d give me when she found out?
at belting (n.) under belt, v.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 195: Three times a week I have this Danish bit comes over and gives me a massage as well.
at bit, n.1
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 260: Nice to see you back at your bitchy best.
at bitchy, adj.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 122: If he’s turfin’ all of you out, you must have put up some kind of black.
at black, n.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 41: Oz knew most of the blaggers from Spennymoor clean through to Berwick-on-Tweed.
at blagger (n.) under blag, v.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 262: They’re all going back to Blighty.
at Blighty, n.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 225: ‘Oh, blow me,’ he said. ‘You still in Spain?’.
at blow me!, excl.1
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 245: The singing reached a boozy crescendo.
at boozy, adj.
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 136: The place rather put me in mind of some punk club I bounced at for a couple of days.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 143: Just havin’ a quiet night in with the goggle-box.
at goggle box, n.
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