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[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iv: If Whit Sunday falls on the tenth I’m pommelled up to the arse in trouble.
at up to the arse/ass under arse, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: All the envoys, and secretaries and kiss-me-arse men waited outside.
at kiss my arse fellow, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iv: You kids don’t know your arse from a hole in the ground.
at not know one’s arse/ass from a hole in the ground (v.) under arse, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iii: He’s joining the pioneers. He’s as thick as a shovel.
at thick as..., adj.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: B.O. Can you tell your best friend. You could start with Mabel, could you? I mean her B.O. isn’t as bad as the other stuff.
at b.o., n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: Bags I last to clock on.
at bags I!, excl.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: I’d bang you Wags, but I respect your football.
at bang, v.1
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: I might be injured. I’ve had a belt on the knee.
at belt, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II iii: He must be a well-fed bleeder, that ’un.
at bleeder, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iv: bagley: What do you do after a day’s fishing? spow: Go on the booze.
at on the booze under booze, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iv: And me, I’ll be the boozed up champion of the Mason’s Arms Snooker Hall.
at boozed, adj.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I ii: Anyone for cards, boys? Show your brass or remove your arse.
at brass, n.1
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I ii: They’re all the same to you. You have no imagination. To you, the feminine gender of anything is to buck.
at buck, v.1
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iii: I’m going up. Right. Give us a bunk up.
at bunk up, n.1
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iii: Why didn’t somebody say he had spectacles on? Are they bust, son?
at bust, adj.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II iv: Keeps the oil flowing. You’ve got to butter up them Sheiks.
at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II i: That was a cliffhanger. You came at the right moment.
at cliffhanger, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: Who you calling a big clown.
at clown, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II iii: If I’d had my choice I’d have curled your Dad’s hair.
at curl someone’s hair (v.) under curl, v.1
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iii: If you do him, I’ll do you. And all your bloody gang.
at do, v.1
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iv: All that Chinese food I ate [...] sitting in the parlour with Mam and Dad holding in a fart for three hours.
at fart, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II iii: Come on, Leo, give us a go.
at go, n.1
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II iii: boswell: I didn’t know Richard Burton was Welsh. jimmy: I think he’s having us on.
at have someone on, v.1
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II iv: It’ll play hell with her legs. She’ll lose them good legs.
at play (merry) hell with (v.) under hell, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II iii: Well, don’t just accept it, beat against it, go back home and kick up merry hell.
at kick up merry hell (v.) under hell, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II i: bagley: Anybody know where the New Forest is? boswell: Wales, I think. taffy: Is it hell in Wales.
at is he/she/it hell! (excl.) under — hell!, excl.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iv: I tell you, we’re going away this fortnight [...] Kipping out, roughing it. None of your thermos flask week-ends in Brid.
at rough it, v.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: I sometimes think I won’t do it, but I told my mother I would stick in.
at stick it, v.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: He ended up a punch drunk lance-jack in the Burmese jungle.
at lance-jack, n.
[UK] P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II ii: We’re having the reception in the Co-op Hall, it’s a sit-down job.
at job, n.2
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