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[UK] P. Barker Union Street 78: ‘I expect you wonder why I do this.’ ‘Bugger-all use denying it.’.
at bugger all, n.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 203: I don’t get on me back for just anybody, you know.
at get on one’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 80: Worst one-armed bandit I ever saw [...] Bastard never pays out.
at bastard, n.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 201: Her eyes were so black you’d ’ve thought somebody had belted her one.
at belt, v.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 197: She talks big, but underneath she’s scared stiff.
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 5: Does that mean Wilf’s had his chips?
at have (had) one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 178: Sometimes I thinks she’s a lot more with it than she cracks on.
at crack on, v.2
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 192: Her Dad had a fancy woman a lot older than himself.
at fancy woman, n.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 193: He gaped at her, too fuddled to take the situation in.
at fuddled, adj.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 189: When she come back she got on with Ted, and married him.
at get on, v.1
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 148: The phlegm was the worst thing. Every morning his father brought it up, not in gobs [...] but in one long, sickening stream.
at gob, n.2
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 20: I’m meant to be in bed at nine. Me Mam’ll go hairless.
at go hairless (v.) under hairless, adj.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 191: He was a right bugger with his wife and bairns, knocked hell out of ’em.
at knock (the) hell of out (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 3: ‘There’s some of us still trying to sleep.’ ‘No bloody wonder. On the hump all night.’.
at on the hump under hump, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 178: Sometimes I thinks she’s a lot more with it than she cracks on.
at with it, adj.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 193: He was fumbling with his flies [...] He seemed to be in no doubt that he – and It – were welcome.
at it, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 8: ‘Language!’ said Mrs Brown, automatically.
at language!, excl.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 199: He drinks, doesn’t he? Loud-mouthed git.
at loudmouth, adj.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 183: Let ’em listen. They’ll have a proper lugful by the time I’m finished.
at lugful (n.) under lug, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 42: I see the milk’s off.
at off, adv.1
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 2: ‘I don’t mind turning out.’ ‘Not much!’ ‘You’ve nothing to turn out to.’ ‘School.’.
at turn out, v.1
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 10: And as for leaving them on their own while I was pubbing it with a fella – no!
at pub, v.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 183: Oh, pull the other one it’s got bells on.
at pull the other one (it’s got bells on) under pull, v.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 205: You took him for a trot, didn’t you?
at take for a ride (v.) under ride, n.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 190: He belted her across the ear, hard enough to make her see stars.
at see stars (v.) under see, v.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 7: I’m just saying there’s too much on the slate.
at on one’s/the slate under slate, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 35: She needed a woman to talk to, but in all this sodding street there wasn’t one of ’em you could trust.
at sodding, adj.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 194: Even if she’d lost Ted, she didn’t think she’d ’ve married again. Live tally, her name on the rent book, yes. But marriage ... no.
at live tally (v.) under tally, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 199: She never had much on top.
at top, n.
[UK] P. Barker Union Street 5: I hope you’ll be all right with ... with Uncle Arthur.
at uncle, n.
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