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A Night to make the Angels Weep choose

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[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I iv: We stalked you [...] We could of had your short hairs off and you’d never of known.
at short and curlies, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I iv: Your old man was always a bad lot.
at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I iv: herbo: I’ll get your first drink, Dezzel. dezzel: Boy, that’s big of you.
at big, adj.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I iii: Tin bleeding whistle.
at bleeding, adj.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I ix: Mean, I call the boyo what I like but he’s still the same feller ent he?
at boyo, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I x: You’ll drink in this house when you taste my Aunt Ada’s plum, mate. She’s the tops round here at brew, I’m telling you.
at brew, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xvi: Them Brummies. Suck arsin’ to them Brummies.
at Brummy, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I vii: You must never go into company with an empty glass. Otherwise they think you’re on the bum.
at on a/the bum under bum, n.3
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I iii: Let me do it. Come out you buzzards.
at buzzard, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xvi: He’d have them on the carpet there, see.
at on the carpet under carpet, n.1
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xiv: Yeah, caulis out, parsnips in.
at cauli, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xvi: Man as con’t keep his wife ain’t no cop.
at no cop under cop, n.2
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xiv: Bring him here and scare the bloody daylights out of him. Man, crush him and you’ll have the village cap in hand.
at frighten the (living) daylights out of (v.) under daylights, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I ii: It’s not going to be like that – whilst ’Oskie and me harrk to your snores of sweet stinky finger – not a bit of it.
at stink-finger, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xvi: You see a lawyer, mate, and the governor will have you for trespassin’, loitering, and frigging, frigging, wife-not-satisfying ...
at frig, v.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I iv: My old gal could use a rabbit.
at old gal, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xvi: Go to him, Squire, spineless get.
at get, n.1
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xvi: Go on, give it to ’em governor.
at give it to, v.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xi: Chairmen’s secretaries, models, society women. Bare shoulders. Coiffures up. Most of them half gone.
at half-gone, adj.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xvi: Gotcher then.
at gotcha!, excl.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I viii: We’ll go on our botany expedition in the morning and leave old grumpus to get his own dinner, shall we?
at grumpus, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I x: Gyppoes. That’s what they are. Gyppoes. Bad blood the lot of ’em.
at gyppo, n.1
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xvi: Now you’re in it, ent you, eh?
at in it, adj.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I ix: They’re tinkling the ivories now. Professional pianist in there you know.
at ivory, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I ii: Fancy a quiet kip do you whilst the train jogs on?
at kip, n.1
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xiii: Little girl’s vests, little girl’s knicks.
at knicks, n.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I iii: She’ll be givin’ them merry hell, that one will.
at merry, adj.
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xii: When Sin was a nipper, he was got at in the fields by a gang from the hollow.
at nipper, n.3
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xii: Oh. Caulibloodyflowers, you’re a funny nut.
at nut, n.1
[UK] P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) I i: When you built your house I said to my old woman, fancy building in the hollow.
at old woman, n.
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