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There is a Happy Land choose

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[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 88: Legs eleven. Sixty-five, old age pension, Kelly’s eye, number one.
at old-age pension, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 80: Buttons tries to pull him out and gets his backside stuck in a drum.
at backside, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 65: ‘G-i-ive o-v-er, Barmpot!’ I shouted.
at barmpot, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 13: You’re blooming barmy, man!
at barmy, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 105: His shorts had slipped and he was showing his belly button.
at belly button (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 113: I wasn’t taking that for one. Not from Raymond blinking Garnett.
at blinking, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 25: He was in the boy sprouts.
at brussel sprout, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 95: Hah, blinking butterfingers has dropped his plate!
at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 112: They used to shout ‘College cad’ at him because he was always top of the class.
at cad, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 117: Got any chewy?
at chewie, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 18: Wasn’t me at all, then, clever clogs.
at clever clogs (n.) under clever, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 87: Clickety-click, sixty-six.
at clickety-click, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 118: His fist had caught me a stinging clout over the forehead.
at clout, n.2
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 16: He’s not simple, he’s blinking crackers. [Ibid.] 139: Marion was dead crackers about the pictures.
at crackers, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 90: The man at the Bingo stall shouted: ‘Doctor’s orders num-ber nine’.
at doctor’s orders (n.) under doctor, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 88: Legs eleven. Sixty-five, old age pension.
at legs eleven, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 87: Clickety-click, sixty-six [...] Kelly’s eye, number one.
at kelly’s eye, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 119: Garno was tougher than I was and he was going to wipe the blinking floor with me.
at wipe the floor (with), v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 23: I shouted: ‘Go it, man!’.
at go it!, excl.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 43: You-ou wasn’t with us [...] so shut your gob.
at shut (up) one’s gob (v.) under gob, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 21: Can we borrow your grid, Garno?
at grid, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 18: Don’t shout with your arm, dafthead.
at -head, sfx
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 100: Oo, lucky you! Dead jammy!
at jammy, adj.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 87: Clickety-click, sixty-six, key of the door, twenty-one.
at key of the door (n.) under key, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 13: Same to you with knobs on.
at with knobs on under knob, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 112: Raymond Garnett used to come up and go: ‘Poooh!’ and hold his nose as though I’d just let off.
at let off (v.) under let, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 114: All the other kids stood round like tom moggies.
at moggie, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 69: Whenever something went wrong, she has to poke her blinking neb in.
at neb, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 37: Shu-ut up, screwy! [...] It’s you that’s blinking screwy, man!
at screwy, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 69: Mrs Fawcett was always shoving her oar in every time we’d been doing anything.
at shove one’s oar in (v.) under shove, v.
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