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Hazell and the Three-card Trick choose

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[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 131: ‘It’s gone irish,’ you’ll hear people say about a rub-a-dub that’s been taken over by the big men with the pixie ears.
at rub-a-dub, n.2
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 68: All the years of ducking and diving from the Old Bill had given him a jaunty little step for a bloke of his age.
at ducking and diving, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 148: A cruise, like. Plenty of grumble and grunt on those boats, innair?
at grumble (and grunt), n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 169: Sorta thing blokes do, keep a little flat on the side for a bit of sparetime grumble.
at grumble (and grunt), n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 147: My trouble and strife. The Enemy. Vera.
at trouble and strife, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 62: Gannex peeled out a fourth and then a fifth tenner. Five cockles!
at cock and hen, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 127: Giving me a quick up and down with light-coloured eyes.
at up-and-down, the, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 117: Cor, Desp, that is a rascal of a whistle. It don’t fit you anywhere, do it?
at whistle (and flute), n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 161: At last I had Uncle Sidney by the short and curlies.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 189: He’d [...] dived straight in and he’d kept the balls in the air. At fifty-three? I should have half his apple.
at apple sauce, n.2
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 193: Maybe it was just your aristo’s natural gallantry.
at aristo, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 6: By the time I’d parked they’d be off [...] Having it away on their toes is what these hounds do best.
at have it away, v.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 77: ‘Alan’s about due back from bein’ away,’ he said. Away meant Chelmsford nick.
at away, adj.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 57: How anybody couldn’t spot them for baddies beats me.
at baddie, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 186: Balls to him [...] As a capitalist he was bearable but as a small-time street grafter he’s bad news.
at balls to...! (excl.) under balls!, excl.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 182: In a million years you ain’t gonna guess wot I really do. Go on — have a bash.
at bash, n.1
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 112: Like all these artificial career-bashers he only heard you when you said something that could be taken as a dig.
at -basher, sfx
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 186: On balance you’re worth more to me in readies than in beddies.
at beddies (n.) under bed, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 17: Half of these actresses are only up there because of their big bells and if they don’t have big bristols why the hell are we bothering to watch them?
at bells, n.2
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 115: I [...] told her it would be a pleasure to drive her home. To Ilford? Gordon Bennett!
at Gordon Bennett!, excl.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 170: She thinks I’m a big noise in the car game in Essex.
at big noise (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 167: They git the slightest notion I’ve come into big money they’re gonna put the bite on me somethin’ cruel.
at put the bite on (v.) under bite, n.1
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 61: Dealer turned them over when he saw Gannex wasn’t biting.
at bite, v.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 78: They ain’t got the brains to blag their way into proper con tricks.
at blag, v.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 120: Easier than geein’ up the punters with boards, innit?
at boards, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 39: How did you know they were boardsmen — three-card trick merchants?
at boardsman, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 180: How come a bonzer bird like you turned crooked in the first place — sport?
at bonzer, adj.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 140: Her second husband [...] had given her the boot when she brought back a nice little dose of gonorrhoea to the nuptial couch.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 124: He’s a boy, innee? [...] Got an answer for everythin’ he has.
at boy, n.3
[UK] ‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 128: The point was — did he belong to somebody else’s set-up or was he the brains?
at brain, n.1
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