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[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 106: ‘I do smell like a pox-doctor’s clerk today.’ He sniffed elaborately at his left lapel. ‘Chance would be a fine thing, wouldn’t it?’.
at chance would be a fine thing, phr.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 53: Senora, ’e say. Bloody ole bag an fackin’ ’oor, you say.
at bag, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 145: She’ll be upset to beggary if she finds out that you’ve been carrying on with kinky blokes.
at to buggery (adv.) under buggery, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 151: Rollin’ in manny and lollin’ round in Caddies and over big cars.
at Caddy, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 106: ‘I do smell like a pox-doctor’s clerk today.’ He sniffed elaborately at his left lapel. ‘Chance would be a fine thing, wouldn’t it?’.
at smell like a pox doctor’s clerk (v.) under pox-doctor’s clerk, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 106: Cobblers to them [i.e the police].
at cobblers!, excl.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 27: He began to push the corner-boy by the rump up the stairs.
at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 197: The flop-tied man dismissed two little ducks, legs eleven, doctor’s chum, Dowing Street, Kelly’s eye, and various others.
at doctor, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 197: The flop-tied man dismissed two little ducks, legs eleven, doctor’s chum, Dowing Street, Kelly’s eye, and various others.
at Downing Street, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 196: Some lovely bonces here tonight [...] Real skating-rinks for flies.
at skating rink for flies, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 59: My old governor was very ’ard. Knocked ’ell out of us kids.
at governor, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 217: ‘Phoney homo,’ sneered Coral.
at homo, n.2
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 113: Four members of the Kettle Mob [...] came down the stairs [...] Edwin, student of philology, knew what kettles were, cheap smuggled watches guaranteed to go for a day or two.
at kettle mob (n.) under kettle, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 213: Lend me a quid, will you? [...] For a kip for the night.
at kip, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 172: Furniture-fracturer, / Light-hearted ligger, / Counterfeit cashman.
at ligger, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 79: People don’t escape from here [i.e. a hospital]. This is not a loony-bin.
at loony bin (n.) under loony, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 57: If I saw you in the street, and we both the way we are now, I’d think you was taking the mike out of me.
at take the mickey (out of), v.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 71: ‘Tomorrow morning we want you to be nice and muzzy’ [...] She emptied a generous helping of tablets out of her bottle.
at muzzy, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 53: She’s a bit narked about not being really married.
at narked, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 89: A keen-eyed, natty man came in.
at natty, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 147: Don’t think much of the niff in here.
at niff, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 11: This tube here is attached to my old whatnot.
at what-not, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 147: Leo Stone mentioned the word ‘peterman’ [...] Instruments clinked and probed, and the lock always promised coyly to yield.
at peterman (n.) under peter, n.3
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 166: ‘It is all night you want, isn’t it?,’ said Coral. ‘It isn’t just one of those quickie larks before the last train?’.
at quickie, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 99: This bloke goes to Ireland and brings this richard back for his uncle.
at Richard (the Third), n.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 53: At the moment we’re here in this hospital visiting this gentleman [...] You savvy that?
at savvy, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 164: The singer, grasping the neck of his guitar [said] ‘You called me a sheila. I heard you distinctly’.
at sheila, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 53: Lie still, keep quiet [...] I hear that you’ve been shouting the odds or something.
at shout the odds (v.) under shout, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 199: Bob administered a token backhanded slosh on the nose.
at slosh, n.2
[UK] A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 197: Doesn’t he speak posh? Ever so soup-and-fish.
at soup and fish (n.) under soup, n.
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