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Joking Apart and Two Other Plays choose

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[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I i: Yes, well, it’s a bit of a barn, I’m afraid. But it’s cheap. They don’t have so many dances these days.
at barn, n.1
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I ii: Gave them a terrific balling out this morning.
at bawl-out, n.1
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I ii: Gave them a terrific balling out this morning.
at bawling out, n.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I i: They’re all the same. Since time immemorial. Spend their lives belly-aching and complaining.
at bellyache, v.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Just Between Ourselves I i: Here. We can have a butcher’s at the business end. Just a tick. [he releases the bonnet] There she is.
at have a butcher’s (at) (v.) under butcher’s hook, n.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table II i: donald: Who exactly are the enemy, Captain? How will one know them? tim: Anyone wearing a jerkin, clout him.
at clout, v.1
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I iii: The kennels are all to cock.
at all to cock (adj.) under cock, n.5
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I iii: He’s a megalomaniac. The man’s paranoid. He’s cracked.
at cracked, adj.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Just Between Ourselves I i: She used to live there with her son who was a bit funny. You know, peculiar.
at funny, adj.2
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I i: These were men [...] who spent their working lives sweating their guts out for a living. [...] I ii: He’s been slogging his guts out for this lot.
at sweat one’s guts out (v.) under gut, n.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Just Between Ourselves II i: Could you jolly me up, please, Dennis.
at jolly, v.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table II ii: He’s gone barmy! The stupid fascist loony!
at loony, n.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Just Between Ourselves I i: Peanuts for a car like this. It’s hardly run in.
at peanut, n.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I i: God, that’s even worse. A Marxist. That’s even worse. They’re completely round the bend.
at round the bend (adj.) under round the..., phr.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table II i: Once he gets on his soapbox, spouting his rubbish, you’ll never get him off.
at spout, v.1
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I iii: The tech did them for us.
at tech, n.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table II ii: donald: Like this? tim: That’s the ticket.
at that’s the ticket! (excl.) under ticket, n.1
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Ten Times Table I i: Charlotte and I just had the smallest tiff this evening.
at tiff, n.2
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Just Between Ourselves II ii: marjorie: I’ve got you a nice chop. dennis: Lovely. Yum yum.
at yum!, excl.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Joking Apart ll ii: Well, I think that’s as good a cue as any for us all to buzz off and leave you to your party, Debbie.
at buzz off, v.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Joking Apart II i: Thought I’d ring the changes.
at ring the changes, v.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Joking Apart II i: Sorry. A bit flukey.
at fluky, adj.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Joking Apart II i: You can muck in here for a few weeks – no obligation.
at muck in, v.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Joking Apart II i: You’ve been very peaky lately. Can’t we have a proper holiday sometime?
at peaky, adj.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Joking Apart II i: He’s a rubbish player. You can beat him.
at rubbish, adj.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Joking Apart I i: Aw, screw you, brother! Screw you!
at screw you! (excl.) under screw, v.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Joking Apart II ii: Yes, ta. Leave it there for me.
at ta!, excl.
[UK] A. Ayckbourn Joking Apart I i: Christopher did a wee-wee in the fireworks.
at wee, n.
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