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The Eye in the Door choose

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[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 198: ‘Will you go?’ ‘Might.’ He looked round him, and the bitterness spilled. ‘Fuck all here.’.
at fuck all, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 93: This war’s the Trojan horse, only they’re all too so-and-soing daft to see it.
at so-and-so, adj.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 31: Bugger off back to London you greasy, arse-licking little sod.
at arse-licking (adj.) under arse-lick, v.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 93: They were glad of a bit of bread and scrape before the war.
at bread and scrape (n.) under bread, n.1
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 201: Hang on a minute. I didn’t come here to brown-nose you or your fucking friend at the War Office.
at brown-nose, v.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 62: ‘Here she [i.e. an airplane] is,’ Dundas said, patting the fuselage. ‘Terrible old bucket.’.
at bucket, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 83: That bloody buggering Welsh windbag he don’t change his tune much.
at buggering, adj.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 101: He’s had his vote taken away ’cause he’s a conchie.
at conchie, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 269: One of the degenerates, the loonies, the lead-swingers, the cowards.
at lead-swinger, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 3: He shook his head sadly. ‘Five months in a loony bin last year.’.
at loony bin (n.) under loony, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 93: ‘Oh, and he doesn’t like false teeth [...] Mrs Thorpe’s got them, you know.’ ‘Mutton dressed as lamb,’ he says.
at mutton dressed as lamb (n.) under mutton, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 129: Piss off.
at piss off!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 37: That bloody, buggering bastard Lloyd George, he’s got a head on him like a forty-shilling pisspot.
at pisspot, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 262: They don’t give you any paper to wipe yourself with and the food in here’s enough to give a brass monkey the shits.
at shits, the, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 95: Breaking off now and then for a drag on a tab end.
at tab, n.4
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