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(ref. to 1930) Emlyn 175: He and his buddy started to dance together, arsing around, you know ...No, in the buff, except for socks and shoes, hats on the back of their heads.at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
(ref. to 1930) Emlyn 175: He and his buddy started to dance together, arsing around, you know ...No, in the buff, except for socks and shoes, hats on the back of their heads. (ref. to 1930s) Emlyn 251: I thought, it’s a funny world and sucks to Alfred Drayton, spoke my first silly-ass scene [...] with the faintest drawl.at -ass, sfx
(ref. to c.1917) Emlyn 197: I passed a dozen Highlanders [...] fast asleep, knees up to the chin [...] the kilts had ridden up over their bellies and the summer dawn was kissing a row of the biggest cock-stands anybody’s ever set eyes on.at cockstand, n.
(con. 1927–30) Emlyn 111: I’m thirty-five, ducks, but wi’ slap on me face and a spot of surprise pink in the floats I can get away wi’ twenty.at ducks, n.1
(ref. to c. 1917) Emlyn 197: Then France, the real thing, wham ... [...] There were the knocking shops behind the lines, but queuing up for three minutes of oo-la-la . . . no thanks.at knocking-shop, n.
(con. 1927–30) Emlyn 27: Then there’s my antique dealer friend, likes chickens and since anything underage is dangereux I warned him to prendre garde a Lily Law.at lily law, n.
(con. 1927–30) Emlyn 111: A lively Cockney gadabout. ‘I’m thirty-five, ducks, but wi’ slap on me face and a spot of surprise pink in the floats I can get away wi’ twenty’.at slap, n.2
(ref. to 1930s) Emlyn 251: I thought, it’s a funny world and sucks to Alfred Drayton.at sucks (to you)!, excl.
(con. 1927–30) Emlyn 27: He was amazed by my innocence [...] ‘Honey, you have the nerve to tell me you don’t know what “t.b.h.” means, but, cheri, [...] it means “to be had”, naturellement.’.at t.b.h., n.
(ref. to 1930) Emlyn 170: In the Long Bar at the Troc, he had got to know a presentable young man.at Troc, the, n.
(con. 1930) Emlyn 175: ‘Threesomes?’ ‘Good God, no.’.at threesome (n.) under three, n.
(con. 1934) Emlyn 323: A good yack-yack gets the ball rolling.at yack, n.2
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