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[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 33: A steep, darkly lit staircase that could have you going arse over tip if you’d had a few.
at have a few (v.) under few, a, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 99: Who gives a fuck about you, Flood.
at give a fuck, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 205: I suggest you stop fucking me about and let me pass.
at fuck about, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 200: In that case he’s double barred. No, hang about – it’s Jamesy, isn’t?
at hang about!, excl.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 93: That ace wankah Ellis Hugo Bell was here.
at ace, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 132: A game plan was forming in Alex’s by now somewhat addled mind.
at addled, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 23: ‘Why do you say she gave you the Spanish fiddle?’ ‘Come again?’ ‘Spanish fiddle. El bow.’.
at come again!, excl.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 44: He’s the one that’s doing all the aggro.
at aggro, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 7: At this moment in time it is all up in the air.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 195: That editress of his on the Examiner would have his guts for garters. Alex could almost smell the stench of fat sizzling in the fire.
at fat is in the fire, (all) the, phr.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 87: Wunner them, eh. S & M.
at S and M, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 136: That Simon you’re knocking around with? What’s he been doing?
at knock around, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 33: A steep, darkly lit staircase that could have you going arse over tip if you’d had a few.
at arse over tip under arse, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 131: I’m totally arsed with this liner talk.
at arsed, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 130: Soho was supposed to be where the action was, where it was all at as the old phrase had it.
at where it’s at, phr.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 172: Could be Jenny Wise and the randy young telly bloke having it away, too impatient to go round to her place.
at have it away (with), v.2
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 118: Come on, Brendan, let’s have it away on our toes to Mr Wong’s.
at have it away, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 69: If the Club and Vice come down with this silly sod lying there, they’ll go bald.
at bald-headed, adv.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 181: Christ on crutches, she’ll have your balls for breakfast!
at have someone’s balls (for a game of pool) (v.) under balls, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 156: James recited: ‘Coach, French, Pillars of Hercules, Blue Posts, Three Greyhounds, Admiral Duncan, Wellington Arms. [...] My usual beat.’.
at beat, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 49: I’m half in bed with a guy in LA whose name I daren’t even breathe.
at in bed with (adj.) under bed, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 18: Come on, Jen, let’s have you pissed off up them stairs to Bedfordshire.
at Bedfordshire, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 7: A masochistic cocktail waitress trying unsuccessfully to get herself murdered for kicks, being saved by the bell when her hired would-be killer falls in love with her.
at saved by the bell (adj.) under bell, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 82: He wouldn’t mind gatecrashing one. Blag his way in.
at blag, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 22: She didn’t like it. In fact she blurry hated it.
at blurry, adv.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 77: Good bod, too.
at bod, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 102: Swallow you for breakfast and spit the pips out.
at have someone for breakfast (v.) under breakfast, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 160: Now Alex understood why he’d been played off with the Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’ when he detached himself from Jenny after her brush-off at the bar.
at brush-off, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 202: If the idea was such a bummer [...] would the Arts Council cough up twelve and a half grand?
at bummer, n.4
[UK] K. Waterhouse Soho 194: Alex couldn’t say he went a bundle on Berwick Street Market, it wasn’t a patch on the great glass-covered market up in Leeds.
at go a bundle on (v.) under bundle, n.1
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