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Tell Morning This (1967) 197: I done you a good turn [...] I took you in when you hadn’t a stitch, when you were bottle-green and lousy from sleeping in parks.at bottlegreen and lousy, adj.
Tell Morning This (1967) 197: I done you a good turn [...] I took you in when you hadn’t a stitch, when you were bottle-green and lousy from sleeping in parks. Tell Morning This (1967) 201: It’s a no-hoper’s jail—a lot of old warbs and kids mixed up with coves like Amos the Cannibal and chaps that razors bounce off.at no-hoper, n.
Tell Morning This (1967) 395: You’ve only got to put it to a girl on the beat that you’re just out of stir and flat broke and she won’t see you left. If she’s slinging it to someone already, she’ll send you along to another girl who isn’t, and you’ll have a room a few quid and a hell of a lot of kindness. I’m no bludger, see? I’m no Red Bob, but I’ve no time for these loud-mouthed larrikins that despise a girl because she’s dumb enough to fall for them.at red bob (n.) under red, adj.
Tell Morning This (1967) 395: You’ve only to put it to a girl on the beat that you’re just out of stir and flat broke and she won’t see you left. If she’s slinging it to someone already, she’ll send you along to another girl who isn’t, and you’ll have a room and a few quid and a hell of a lot of kindness.at sling (it) to (v.) under sling, v.
Tell Morning This 156: ‘What’s biting this mug? [...] From the silly look on his mush you’d think he was a bloody imbecile’.at bite, v.
Tell Morning This 22: ‘[D]on’t tell old Mort I’ve got anything [i.e. money] or he’ll want to blue the lot’.at blow, v.2
Tell Morning This 394: ‘We used to camp out [...] Just a bunch of ’boes’.at bo, n.1
Tell Morning This 197: ‘I took you in when you hand’t a stitch, when you wre bottle green and lousy from sleeping in parks’.at bottle-green and lousy (adj.) under bottle, n.1
Tell Morning This 214: He didn’t like [...] anyone ‘to come the bounce over him’.at come (on) the bounce (v.) under bounce, n.1
Tell Morning This 21: The noted propensities of the brush for putting you in [ibid.] 27: ‘Hec’ll only give you the brush-off’.at brush-off, n.
Tell Morning This 219: [I]t was very natural that she should threaten to bump [Judge] Aumbry.at bump, v.1
Tell Morning This 201: ‘[Y]ou’ll be doing your little canful at Barmeadow.at canful (n.) under can, n.1
Tell Morning This 21: He had known women to get off the chain for much less than a man pulling a gun on them,.at off the chain under chain, n.
Tell Morning This 19: ‘[A] couple of quid? Girls like you, that’s only chicken feed’.at chickenfeed, n.
Tell Morning This 392: ‘Stripy hears him having another chip with a couple of cros’.at chip, n.4
Tell Morning This 206: Old Curl the Mo had complained to a felow warder about Chigger lounging, smoking.at curl-the-mo, adj.
Tell Morning This 21: ‘How about you [...] taking a dekko’ [ibid.] 395: ‘Take a decco at that’.at dekko, n.
Tell Morning This 394: ‘A man’s [...] gotta jump right in with both feet when someone downs one of his own side’.at down, v.2
Tell Morning This 395: ‘I’m only ducking out for a few minutes. I’ll be right back’.at duck out, v.
Tell Morning This 392: ‘Old Stripy’s been taking the invites pretty near all over the faking city’.at fucking, adj.
Tell Morning This 91: ‘You don’t think I want this place going up just when I’m all set to move out’.at go up, v.1
Tell Morning This 289: ‘I went right through. I’d got plenty of smash’.at go through, v.
Tell Morning This 284: ‘You’re good with the Heads’.at head, n.
Tell Morning This 394: ‘Ar, pull your head in, Dave’.at pull your head in! (excl.) under head, n.
Tell Morning This 289: ‘First [dolls] are honeys, and then they begin to take you up on any little thing’.at honey, n.1
Tell Morning This 21: The noted propensities of the brush for putting you in.at put in, v.
Tell Morning This 19: ‘Before I’d let a fat jellybag and a dirty little rat stand over me, I’d call every rozzer in the force’.at jelly-bag (n.) under jelly, n.1
Tell Morning This 202: ‘This job’s a pushover’.at job, n.2
Tell Morning This 284: [I]t was prisoner’s right to ‘knock up’ the warder [...] in an emergency by battering the door of the cell.at knock up, v.
Tell Morning This 205: [K]eeping guard to warn the others when a ‘red light’ in the shape of one of the heads appeared.at red light, n.2
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