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Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 158: I haven’t been messing around with your missus.at mess about, v.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 158: I haven’t been messing around with your missus. Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 193: We were mugs to have mucked about and lost that job.at muck about, v.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 40: They were all the same, complacent, [...] scared of ‘getting above themselves,’ expecting nothing.at get above oneself (v.) under above oneself, adj.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 87: Bill’s up to some dodge with that young Smart Aleck.at smart aleck, n.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 92: The pseudo Al Capone with his two strong-arm men.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 154: He’s been fooling around with old Bill’s missus.at fool around, v.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 73: He hung up and winked at Jim. ‘Editor of the MotorCar, my backside!’ he said.at my backside! (excl.) under backside, n.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 147: Just look at those bags – for Gawsake!at bags, n.2
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 155: If he ever had a bride to tumble that was like Becky Franks he’d kill any son of a bitch who barged in on her.at barge (in) (v.) under barge, n.1
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 117: Girls like that, girls who went on the bash every night like she did.at on the bash under bash, v.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 15: All this American rot you talk, you silly young baskets!at basket, n.2
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 46: Caw! Life was a proper bastard, wasn’t it? [Ibid.] 163: That was a bastard of a price to pay for reading.at bastard, n.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 155: I bet they had the old Sir Berkeley all right. [Ibid.] 177: Mister Carden, who was in the habit of havin’ the old Sir Berkerley with Miss Thomas [etc.].at Sir Berkeley, n.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 175: You’re an early bird to-night, Mr. B., aren’t you?at early bird, n.1
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 18: Flashy bitch [...] I bet I showed her!at bitch, n.1
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 101: They were all fairly lit-up with whisky, and all ready for trouble, as Bloods should be.at blood, n.1
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 47: His reading consists of ‘bloods’ – lurid tales of murder and muscular violence.at blood, n.1
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 11: What the hell are you wearing a red tie for? [...] You’re no bloody Bolshie.at bolshie, n.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 93: Louie had a head on him after a booze-up the night before.at booze-up, n.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 130: Get in, you boozy sod!at boozy, adj.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 109: I got to take a bramah to the pitchers ’sevening.at brama, n.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 169: Those damned Bankleys will be here in a minute, Maggie [...] Buck up, for Gawd’s sake.at buck up!, excl.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 45: What the hell do you think I can do, eh? Bust out crying and take you home to your missus?at bust out, v.4
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 207: Win or bust – what the hell was there to it, otherwise? Win or bust. Fine.at bust, v.1
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 150: Why don’t you change your mind and give this old berk the go-bye.at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 54: Then perhaps you’d better go back to bye-byes.at go (to) bye-bye(s) (v.) under bye-bye(s), n.
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 48: A better job than driving those tin cans of Chantrey’s about.at tin-can, n.2
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 189: I know you’re in the cart, and I’m in too.at in the cart under cart, n.1
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 22: Cheek! She felt her face glowing red.at cheek, n.2
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 195: I haven’t got any two quid. I’m cleaned ... cleaned ... CLEANED! See?at cleaned (out), adj.
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