1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 60: Whether Hurtle Street or Douche Can Alley I wouldn’t say.at douche can alley, n.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 205: Geechi! [...] You ole alley-cat! Where you been?at alley cat, n.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 383: She sped along to the little ham-and-beef shop on the corner of the street.at ham and beef, n.1
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 49: That big animal of a Mort hadn’t any more sense than to give the girls away.at animal, n.1
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 314: There’ll be nosing around there sure as hell.at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 232: What do you want to dwell on Terry for? She was always as mad as a snake.at ...a cut snake under mad as..., adj.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 47: He hasn’t got away [...] He’s as good as in the bag.at in the bag under bag, n.1
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 322: Just getting some spots off the old bag of fruit.at bag of fruit, n.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 191: The battle waggon in the harbour, affectionately known as the Wandering Junkpile.at battle wagon (n.) under battle, n.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 167: Of course the Bay can be pretty grim. Dirty blankets and they don’t wash the spoons.at Bay, the, n.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 7: ‘Got any money?’ ‘Not a bean.’.at not a bean (n.) under bean, n.1
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 23: ‘Morton the bustman!’ Rene sneered. ‘Listen to him big-note himself. He’s going to do a bust.’.at big-note, v.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 159: In the charge room at the back, one early-bird solicitor was already seeking an interview with his client.at early-bird, adj.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 37: Now, what’s biting you, Mort?at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 231: It was all a big standover. There were farmers being stood over by banks, butchers bullied by carcase butchers, bakers driven to suicide by flour millers; all one big bite.at bite, n.1
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 232: I’ve got coves on the bite all the time.at on the bite under bite, v.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 370: I been expecting her to drop in and bite me for a few bob.at bite, v.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 371: Why, David, you old boob rat! [...] What you doing in this blood-house?at blood house (n.) under blood, n.1
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 21: Don’t let’s have any blues [...] You know how the brush are? Screaming and yelling copper at the least little thing.at blues, n.2
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 209: Then he’d eat a bit of bread and say, ‘Bonza roast beef’.at bonzer, adj.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 371: Why, David, you old boob rat! [...] What you doing in this blood-house?at boob rat (n.) under boob, n.1
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 171: I’ve only to pass the word to some of the boss’s boys, and you won’t find this such a good sitting-place either.at boss, n.2
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 226: As a rotund, solemn small boy he had been bounced by his sister Terry, by the Cobbett son Johnno, by old man Cobbett.at bounce, v.1
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 306: Break it up, Terry [...] Time you got back to the Wing.at break it up!, excl.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 328: You don’t have to appear in that little brum court they have at the Reception House.at brum, adj.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 26: To him all girls were collectively ‘the brush’; some were ‘hot dishes’, and others ‘drak’ sorts’.at brush, n.4