1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 418: Saw a squaddie, drunk as arseholes.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 459: I was pretty nearly bonkers and for no reason.at bonkers, adj.
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 424: The Aussies blamed us and the Brits for lack of air cover.at Brit, n.
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 433: Well, what d’ya know! [...] She’s not Persian after all.at what do you know?, phr.
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 397: You’re down now, but it won’t last. You’ll jump out of it, see if you don’t.at down, adv.1
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 461: That’s good, coming from Lady Hooper’s fancy man.at fancy man, n.1
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 415: And have some Levantine floosie snap him up?at floozy, n.
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 391: Afore I come to this kip, all I ever done was shovel coal.at kip, n.1
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 446: Near them lay one of the young women known to officers as ‘Gezira lovelies’.at lovely, n.
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 442: I was never keen on mugging up school books.at mug (up), v.2
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 417: They don’t want the Russkies to advance on that front.at Russki, n.
1980 (con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 460: A nice-looking girl like Harriet dead and that old trout survives!at old trout (n.) under trout, n.2