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Oh! To be in England choose

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[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 337: Well, how’s Charley boy? And how’s my little apple?
at apple, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 426: Keep your big mouth shut [...] Belt up.
at belt up (v.) under belt, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 349: You’ve been a bit quiet lately. I’d almost begun to think you’d gone off the boil.
at go off the boil (v.) under boil, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 383: They were all going boss-eyed, watching telly.
at boss-eyed, adj.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 345: In an unguarded moment he actually addressed Pop as ‘old boy’.
at old boy, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 380: No funny business. Back over there. Go on, back.
at funny business, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 377: Finished. Busted. Thinking of turning it in.
at busted, adj.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 377: If it ain’t me ole china Sid. If it ain’t me ole china.
at old china (n.) under china (plate), n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 349: Been having a long chin-wag with somebody, haven’t you?
at chinwag, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 380: I ought to bust your clock in!
at clock, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 382: What with one thing and another [...] and now the blow on the conk, he felt he couldn’t carry on.
at conk, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 355: She handles the piebald like a real dabster. All my kids are good with horses.
at dabster, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 424: Was Mr Candy feeling dicky?
at dicky, adj.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 375: Have a doss-down if you feel like it.
at doss-down (n.) under doss, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 376: You do, an’ all, General. Shook me to the nellies.
at nellie (duff), n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 338: It’s all Dutch to me.
at Dutch, n.2
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 384: After all Froggies are human, I suppose.
at Froggie, n.
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 427: Ma, he couldn’t help thinking, looked a tiny bit pale round the gills.
at white about/around/in/round the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 343: Ah! you’re the johnny who buys junk. I’ve heard of you.
at johnny, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 373: I get the pip without company.
at get the pip (v.) under pip, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 338: Who the pipe’s it from?
at pipe, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 381: It was almost worth a shiner to see Edith like that.
at shiner, n.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 427: Upset you to tan the twins too, I expect?
at tan, v.1
[UK] H.E. Bates Oh! To be in England (1985) 343: Oh! there’s a tidy bit o’ talent about if you know where to look for it.
at tidy, adj.
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