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[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 77: This smart Alick got caught.
at smart aleck, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 80: Look at all the good sorts walking past, look at the ‘ham and eggs’ (legs).
at ham and eggs, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 42: Stewed rabbit here also, better bog into that.
at bog in, v.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 45: Sorry boys, no puddin’ tonight; I was going to make a blancmange, but I was buggered for dripping.
at buggered for (adj.) under buggered, adj.2
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 60: You can always get a few bob for them if you are stuck for chips.
at chip, n.2
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 79: ‘Hello, Digger,’ was their greeting.
at digger, n.1
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 64: It dawned on me when I saw him in the morning that he was verging on the DT’s or, in Aussie terms, ‘the ding bats’.
at dingbats, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 98: The ‘Dumpty’ is usually down the garden path in the backyard.
at dumpty, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 80: Muscat was dubbed ‘Round the world for fourpence,’ or a ‘fourpenny dart’ [sic].
at fourpenny dark (n.) under fourpenny, adj.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 38: Our respective bosses [...] were as Irish as Paddy’s pig.
at as Irish as Paddy Murphy’s pig under Irish, adj.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 111: A yarn and a kind word from one of the ‘Shaky Isles,’ as New Zealand is called by the Aussies.
at Shaky Isles, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 122: Fair Dinkum, Aussie, and Kio Ora, Kiwi.
at Kiwi, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 85: Most grocers ran an ‘under the lap’ starting-price system; although illegal it attracted customers towards the shop.
at under the lap (adv.) under lap, n.1
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 81: King’s Cross, known to all and sundry as the ‘Naughty Half Mile’ had a clientèle of doves who did not tread the pavement but frequented the various cafés.
at Naughty Half Mile (n.) under naughty, adj.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 38: My chief who was called a ‘pannikin’ boss, in charge of a small section, happened to be English.
at pannikin boss (n.) under pannikin, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 80: Pure Panther’s piss, brewed in wood.
at panther piss, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 80: Port was called ‘Pinkie,’ and those who preferred port were Pinkie drinkers, and if one’s name was Joe, he would be referred to as ‘Pinkie Joe’.
at pinkie, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 80: I get threepence back on the empty quart at the Plonk shop [...] The wine saloons were called ‘Plonk Bars’.
at plonk, n.2
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 38: I am not a ruddy Pommey.
at pommie, n.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 80: Muscat was dubbed ‘Round the world for fourpence,’ or a ‘fourpenny dart.’.
at round the world for threepence under round the..., phr.
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 105: A Jap sub cut its way through the steel net in Sydney harbour.
at sub, n.1
[UK] N. Beagley Up and Down Under 79: I really and truly expected a ‘touch’ for a couple of bob.
at touch, n.1
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