1968 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.
1968 P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: All the envoys, and secretaries and kiss-me-arse men waited outside.at kiss my arse fellow, n.
1968 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.
1968 P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iii: He’s joining the pioneers. He’s as thick as a shovel.at thick as..., adj.
1968 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.
1968 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.
1968 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.
1968 P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I ii: Anyone for cards, boys? Show your brass or remove your arse.at brass, n.1
1968 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
1968 P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iii: Why didn’t somebody say he had spectacles on? Are they bust, son?at bust, adj.
1968 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.
1968 P. Terson Apprentices (1970) II i: That was a cliffhanger. You came at the right moment.at cliffhanger, n.
1968 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
1968 P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iii: If you do him, I’ll do you. And all your bloody gang.at do, v.1
1968 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.
1968 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
1968 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.
1968 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.
1968 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.
1968 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.
1968 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.
1968 P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I i: He ended up a punch drunk lance-jack in the Burmese jungle.at lance-jack, n.
1968 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