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Foveaux 130: He didn’t care a twopenny damn if they were building straw huts.at not give a tuppenny damn, v.
Foveaux 130: He didn’t care a twopenny damn if they were building straw huts. Foveaux 168: [He] had a refined and alleviating line of conversation with skirts. He could always string the feminine.at string (along), v.
Foveaux 176: She’ll be with a gay, not just a bunny anyone would pick up.at gay and hearty, n.
Foveaux 264: Linnie who was becoming an out-and-out Communist.at out-and-out, adj.
Foveaux 47: Tisn’t like a lot of places, just any old how.at anyhow, adj.
Foveaux 289: There was no chance of proving a charge of wilful damage of property. Everything was in apple-pie order.at apple-pie order, n.
Foveaux 180: [He] was heading for Maisie’s flat to establish an alibi when the idea occurred to him that Hamp might have been carrying his, Curly’s gun. What a put-away!at put-away, n.
Foveaux 260: Their like as takers of backsheesh would be no more in the land.at baksheesh, n.
Foveaux 160: Rolfe was again ‘a ball of muscle’, as he termed it, working on the Slum Abolition Committee.at ball of muscle (n.) under ball, n.1
Foveaux 238: The Central Strike Committee was spending money like water just to bash up a few hundred volunteers.at bash up (v.) under bash, v.
Foveaux 127: He had been a sturdy, hale, bull-voiced old battler in the days of the war.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Foveaux 261: He was breezy and cheerful and, at times, slightly beery.at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
Foveaux 266: ‘I don’t know whether to lumber the beggars or knock ’em,’ he yelled. ‘Begorra I’ll knock ’em.’.at begorra!, excl.
Foveaux 49: You’re a nice one [...] There’s times when I could belt you.at belt, v.
Foveaux 172: Jordan’s many years in a bar had given him a perfect technique in dealing with ear-biters.at ear-biter, n.
Foveaux 246: In the midst Emily Anseer, all flying hair and garments, was busily hacking the ankles of two policemen painfully endeavouring to drag her to the black maria.at Black Maria, n.
Foveaux 33: He put me onto a Good Thing. He did, blast him.at blast, v.1
Foveaux 249: That beastly old blister had the hide to button-hole him in the street.at blister, n.1
Foveaux 220: Three quarters of an hour after the appointed time Honest John accidentally blew in, having remembered, that he was to meet a man about some timber.at blow in, v.2
Foveaux 290: You can always get a bet ’cause there’s sure to be some bloke wiv a life sentence an’ a wireless. As long as you don’t smack a bad blue, you ought to ’ave a ’appy time [AND].at smack a blue (v.) under blue, n.4
Foveaux 290: As long as you don’t smack a bad blue, you ought to ’ave a ’appy time.at blue, n.1
Foveaux 252: When a cop brings in one of these strikers, a sympathetic Bobbie down at the Court rings up the Trades Hall.at bobby, n.1
Foveaux 253: ‘Disgraceful,’ Honest John boiled. ‘If I had them I’d show them!’.at boil, v.
Foveaux 247: Give it to ’em! Put in the boot, boys!at put the boot in (v.) under boot, the, n.
Foveaux 43: Nosey pocketed his reward [...]. ‘Bet he boozes the lot,’ the Captian prophesied.at booze, v.
Foveaux 49: Eight-Hour Day and a rush on, and that’s the time you get boozed.at boozed, adj.
Foveaux 223: ‘Moved that no action be taken,’ chanted one of the more crusted alderman and added under his breath ‘crackbrained bosh’.at bosh, n.1
Foveaux 312: ‘I brassed a mug yesterday [...] and everything’s sweet again.’ He flashed a roll of notes as big as his fist.at brass, v.
Foveaux 279: Here am I—practically flat broke. Don’t know if I can scrape together enough to pay my rent next week.at flat broke, adj.
Foveaux 132: Anything to buck old Jimmy up.at buck up, v.2
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