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[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: It has feck-all to do with me.
at feck-all, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: You’re right. As thick as two planks.
at ...two short planks under thick as..., adj.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: The moon’s gone in. It’s as black as a dago’s armpits.
at black as..., adj.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: I thought maybe I’d turned into an oul’ bag o’ bones like your woman in that fillum, ‘Lost Whores’.
at bag of bones, n.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: The beggars are running like billy-o. Hurrah!
at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: If you would consent to place yorself under my personal protection I should be most fearfully bucked.
at bucked, adj.2
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: English chappie, name of Wren. Rum sort of fellow.
at chappie, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: You’re a charmer, you know that?
at charmer, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: You know, when the chips are down you’ve really got to hand it to the British.
at when the chips are down under chip, n.2
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: Frankly I don’t give a continental.
at continental, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: Of course there were burglars [...] And when you caught them they said: ‘It’s a fair cop, I’ll come quietly’.
at fair cop, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: You ship the dipsos off to be dried out.
at dipso, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: What makes you think I’d have a Froggie name like Geste?
at froggy, adj.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: This young lad, this little get, comes up to me.
at get, n.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: What you told us, you weren’t coming the hound? I mean, that Arab was on a camel when he shot you?
at come the hound (v.) under hound, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: Dagos, frogs, huns, niggers and wops.
at Hun, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: Well, I’m jiggered.
at I’ll be jiggered! (excl.) under jigger, v.3
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: He’s in the jigs.
at in the jigs (adj.) under jigs, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: I musta had got a bad pint ... I’m in the jigs. Me ma ... where’s me ma?
at in the jigs (adj.) under jigs, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: But by jingo, it’s worth trying.
at jingo!, excl.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: By jove.
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: It’s all there ... eight and a kick.
at kick, n.2
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: Either they’ve sheared off or they’re lying low behind the privet.
at lay low, v.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: Your the looney doctor for the Dail.
at loony doctor (n.) under loony, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: It seems like only yesterday that the pater took us up to town for the old Queen’s diamond jubilee.
at pater, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: I was standing outside the Pav.
at Pav, the, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: Put that in your saucepan and simmer it!
at put that in your pipe (and smoke it)! (excl.) under pipe, n.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: He’d call a po a functional ceramic.
at po, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: You stupid quack.
at quack, n.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: Is me face cut? [...] If me good looks went I’d be shagged.
at shagged (out) (adj.) under shag, v.1
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