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[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 124: Left in peace they would have been happy as Larry, short for Lazarus, whose raising seemed to Murphy perhaps the one occasion on which the Messiah had over stepped the mark.
at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 121: ‘Well, that beats the band,’ said Ticklepenny.
at beat the band (v.) under band, n.2
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 115: An elder sister, two nieces and a by-blow on the female side.
at by-blow, n.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 46: Cooper [...] who has probably gone on the booze.
at on the booze under booze, n.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 5: Soon he would have to buckle to and start eating, drinking, sleeping and putting his clothes on and off.
at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 121: I swear I turned the little b--- on.
at bugger, n.1
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 118: You [...] you shut your bloody choke, we all know what you want.
at shut one’s choke (v.) under choke, n.1
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 60: They have been too generous with the cowjuice.
at cow juice (n.) under cow, n.1
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy 42: He did not speak to the curates, he did not drink the endless half-pints of porter that he had to buy.
at curate, n.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 144: And no doubt your great piece of news is the same as your doxy’s.
at doxy, n.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy 240: Mr. Endon [...] the most biddable little gaga in the entire institution.
at gaga, n.1
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 102: As Miss Carridge in a moment of gush had had the folly to reveal.
at gush, n.2
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 60: Since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce [...] it was only reasonable to defer to his complaints.
at gut-rot (n.) under gut, n.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 62: My liver dried up [...] so I had to hang up my lyre.
at hang up one’s fiddle (v.) under hang up one’s..., v.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 14: She [...] sat down on a bench between a Chelsea pensioner and an Eldorado hokey-pokey man.
at hokey-pokey man (n.) under hokey-pokey, n.3
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 183: I desire that they [i.e. remains] be burnt and placed in a paper bag and brought [...] without pause into what Lord Chesterfield calls the necessary house.
at necessary house, n.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 150: I may not be a trueborn jackeen, but I am better than nothing.
at jackeen, n.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 48: This was the kind of Joe Miller that Murphy simply could not bear to hear revived. It had never been a good joke.
at Joe Miller, n.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 63: Dr. Fist said: ‘Giff de pooze ub or go kaputt’.
at kaput, adj.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 96: There will be more joy in heaven over Murphy finding a job than over the billions of leatherbums that never had anything else.
at leather bum (n.) under leather, adj.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 42: The boots [...] handed him a telegram. found stop look slippy cooper.
at look slippy! (excl.) under look, v.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 55: For what was all working for a living but a procuring and a pimping for the money-bags, one’s lecherous tyrants the money-bags.
at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 48: ‘A lady,’ said Murphy bitterly, ‘not a landlady [...] We are P.G.s.’.
at p.g., n.1
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 116: The padded cells, known to the wittier as the ‘quiet rooms’, ‘rubber rooms’ or [...] ‘pads.’.
at rubber room (n.) under rubber, adj.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 16: Mr. Kelly fell back. His bolt was shot.
at shoot one’s bolt (v.) under shoot, v.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 44: ‘Now you are talking,’ said Wylie.
at now you’re talking under talk, v.
[Ire] S. Beckett Murphy (1963) 44: Sometimes you talk as great tripe as Murphy.
at tripe, n.2
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