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The Danger Tree choose

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[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 74: I see you know a thing or two.
at know a thing or two, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 148: Throwing a rock to his butty, he shouted, ‘Ere y’are, gran, you can eat ’em with no teeth’.
at butty, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 17: You pay me or me clock you.
at clock, v.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 131: To say that Hitler can’t be beat / Is just a lot of cock.
at cock, n.5
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 48: We had Tobruk. It was hunkey-dorey.
at hunky-dory, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 181: I must say [...] I rather fancy him.
at fancy, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 152: No point. Can’t do much before sparrow-fart.
at sparrow-fart, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 87: If you ask me, sir, the old fucker’s lost his notes.
at fucker, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 198: The gen is that the jerries are preparing a push on Alam Halfa.
at gen, n.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 30: And what are your getaway plans this time, Major Cookson?
at getaway, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 156: Three chaps hit, sir. Two badly. One of them a gonner.
at goner, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 149: Speck you’re right, guv.
at Guv, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 21: Not a bad fellow, your gyppo.
at gyppo, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 81: She knew she was in for another attack of ‘Gyppy tummy’.
at gyppy tummy, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 165: He must have his terra incognito – his complexes, hang-ups, impediments?
at hang-up, n.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 144: She’s in the john at the moment.
at john, n.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 197: If it hots up, it’ll hot up sudden like.
at like, adv.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 158: Dead as mutton, poor bloke.
at dead as mutton (adj.) under mutton, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 131: For Marshal Timoshenko’s men / Are pissing through von Bock.
at piss through (v.) under piss, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 77: The smell that came from them was nothing like the salty, pissy smell of an European urinal.
at pissy, adj.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 61: As they say in the RAF: ‘Any prang you walk away from is a good prang’.
at prang, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 92: ‘Any questions?’ ‘I’ll say there are,’ Ridley whispered to Simon.
at I’ll say (so) under say, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 14: If anyone offers you a shake-down, that’s all right so long as you ring Transit and release your billet.
at shakedown, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 11: Take a shufti.
at shufti, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 11: A squaddie came to carry his kit.
at squaddie, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 91: We’re to swan about and sting the jerries whenever and wherever we get the chance.
at swan about (v.) under swan, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 110: A little sweetie of a nurse.
at sweetie, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 201: Only take a tick to get permission.
at tick, n.4
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 14: Give me a tinkle mid-way and I’ll let you know what’s doing.
at tinkle, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) O. Manning Danger Tree 86: He’s a toffee-nosed old bumbler.
at toffee-nose(d) (adj.) under toffee, n.
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