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Borstal Boy choose

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[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 283: Smoking like lord’s bastards.
at like a lord’s bastard under like a..., phr.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 313: Won’t matter a tuppenny.
at not matter a tuppenny (damn), v.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 123: In a quiet way, he mucked them about.
at muck about, v.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 335: Now, no buggering about.
at bugger about, v.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 214: Damn-all to do with me.
at damn-all, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 173: I see damn-all screw.
at damn all, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 19: It’s got bugger all to do with him.
at bugger all, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 94: When there’s one of them here among you, the real Ally Daly, the real goat’s genolickers.
at real Ally Daly, the, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 245: Why doesn’t he have his pony and trap in their time?
at pony (and trap), n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 326: What he really wanted was a hit and miss.
at hit (and miss), n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 210: He’s either been in the shovel or on the trot.
at shovel and pick, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 37: I can hear so-and-so’s mill whistle.
at so-and-so, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 192: The Sally Army’s got damn-all to do with us R.C.s.
at Sally Ann, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 148: She [...] pleaded and all. But ’e wasn’t ’aving any.
at not having any, phr.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 191: This arsing around the chapel is as good [...] as a trip to Switzerland.
at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 335: [He] sent him tumbling arse over tip in the water.
at arse over tip under arse, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 321: There’s no need to tear-arse away.
at tear arse, v.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 17: ’E’s not worth a kick in the arse’ole.
at arsehole, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 99: Such a half-arsed class of story I never heard.
at half-assed, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 268: He [...] had his hair cut in the B.B.B. crop, the haircut they give Bad Borstal Boys.
at B.B.B. crop, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 121: If the others were ballocking the screw, I’d be as good as the rest.
at ballock, v.2
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 269: This [...] is where he dropped a ballock.
at drop a ballock (v.) under ballock, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 110: He would catch him by the ballocks and twist and pull on them.
at ballocks, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 164: [They] thought it was all ballocks.
at ballocks, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 21: Now, you poxy looking ballocks. [Ibid.] 86: Sucking up to bullying big bollixes.
at ballocks, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 47: I’ll show you a knee in the balls.
at balls, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 184: I’ll only use my right German band.
at German bands, n.
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 100: The screw banged out the door.
at bang up, v.2
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 171: Bleedin’ screws [...] would bang you, as quick as look at you.
at bang, v.1
[Ire] (con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 325: It beats cock-fighting [...] and that beats Banagher, and Banagher beats the divil.
at beat Bannagher (v.) under Bannagher, n.
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