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Slow Boats to China (1983) 176: They all make jig-a-jig with Arabs for money.at jig-a-jig, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 176: They all make jig-a-jig with Arabs for money. Slow Boats to China (1983) 201: ‘You have jig-jig pictures?’ he asked eagerly.at jig-a-jig, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 418: I didn’t give a tinker’s damn. Nothing on earth mattered.at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 347: It wasn’t all beer and skittles being a planter in Malaya, you know.at all beer and skittles, phr.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 95: Around me, gap-toothed mouths reeking of beer scream, ‘Your mother’s c---!’ and ‘Up your arse!’.at up your arse!, excl.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 317: He’s got a beaut bike.at beaut, adj.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 92: A crooked shipowner gave me a ship – a bucket, really.at bucket, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 341: He strode through the glass-fronted door in a short-sleeved flowered shirt, shorts and sandals. ‘You see me in my who-gives-a-bugger kit.’.at bugger, n.3
Slow Boats to China (1983) 91: The man who threaten with knife is in calaboose, mister.at calaboose, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 89: ‘Too much clifti,’ he growled, using the slang Anglo-Arab word the British Army in Egypt once employed to mean ‘stealing’.at cliftie, v.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 205: I cured his affliction with two fat fingers of gin.at finger, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 194: Every barrack room and ship in the world has a clown like Mir Mohamed – sly, canny, harmlessly dishonest (‘fly’ is the army word).at fly, adj.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 43: As a boxer will study an opponent on film to decide whether to take it slow and tricky or go for a kayo in the first round.at k.o., n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 95: Around me, gap-toothed mouths reeking of beer scream ‘Your mother’s c---!’.at your mother’s cunt! (excl.) under your mother!, excl.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 165: Abdullah [...] began furiously stuffing handfuls of qat leaf, the Yemeni equivalent of pep pills.at pep pill, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 240: Take a pew. Cup of tea?at take a pew (v.) under pew, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 214: What’s your poison? Pink gin? Jolly good.at poison, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 176: ‘The prosses have all gone.’ ‘Prosses?’ ‘Prostitutes – girls and women, mostly from India. The Dubai government sent them off home.’.at pros, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 381: I wondered if [...] there was much infidelity and ‘going off the rails’.at off the rails under rail, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 20: Perhaps my own absurd little smile spoke in the same idiom: ‘Rather!’.at rather!, excl.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 129: Egyptian scalawags, a grinning lot in torn and dirty robes, perched dangerously on the metal platforms.at scallywag, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 240: It wasn’t a shotgun wedding so much as a popgun wedding.at shotgun wedding, n.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 371: ‘Sparks here puts everything down to magic, don’t you, Mr Low?’ The radio officer smiled bashfully.at sparks, n.2
Slow Boats to China (1983) 76: A small and rusty tub swerving too fast into a berth.at tub, n.1
Slow Boats to China (1983) 235: I’ve fallen a whopper. That’s what I’ve done.’ [...] His bandages hid a wound, a big bad one.at whopper, n.
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