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Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 102: I don’t give a God’s curse if you were here since Judas was in the Fire Brigade.at not care a curse, v.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 102: I don’t give a God’s curse if you were here since Judas was in the Fire Brigade. Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 18: A generation or so ago they were arsing around the bog, and a bowl of stirabout and a couple of platefuls of spuds would have cured all the Angst from here back to Norway.at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 150: The buttons were the size of saucers, or within the bawl of an ass of it.at within an ass’s roar (of) under ass, n.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 97: I do, bedad.at bedad!, excl.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 100: Now, this bit of flashing ’ere ... there’ll be nearly a ’alf ton of bluey in that alone.at bluey, n.1
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 100: Oh, I didn’t mean a bowsy the like of that. Sure, that fellow is an impostherer of low degree.at bowsie, n.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 42: Boston, New York, Philly, Chi., L.A., etc.at Chi, n.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 126: Keep away from potheen. No matter what anyone tells you about the fine old drop of ‘Mountain Dew’, it stands to common sense that a few old men [...] with milk-churns and all sorts of improvised utensils, cannot hope to make good spirits.at mountain dew, n.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 44: The Owner turned and roared at me: ‘I don’t care a fiddler’s ---k where it’s being held’.at not give a fiddler’s fuck (v.) under fiddler, n.3
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 45: The bastard gave out that it would be against the rules of the Greyhound Association.at give out, v.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 30: I also bought a picture [...] It is of a bearded gentleman whom I give out is my grandfather though actually I don’t know who the man is.at give out, v.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 75: With his hands trembling, said to His Lord: ‘Cor blimey, guv’nor, turn it up. I ain’t goin’ to knock you’.at gorblimey!, excl.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 105: chuckles: [...] Sixteen half ones of malt and chasers. barman: Certainly, Chuckles ... (Shouts) sixteen small whiskeys and sixteen bottles of stout.at half-one, n.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 106: Chuckles, the flower of the flock; the heart of the roll.at heart of the rowl (n.) under heart, n.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 24: There was hell to pay, but all I remember of the row was her voice roaring again and again [...] ‘There’s no honest whores left.’.at hell to pay under hell, n.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 130: ‘Stephen,’ he said, ‘tell me, I think I’m in the horrors. Could that possibly be a gennet?’ ‘Yes, it is,’ said my father. ‘Thank God,’ said my grandfather, ‘I thought I was in delerium tremors and I was seeing gennets instead of rats.’.at horrors, the, n.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 75: With his hands trembling, said to His Lord: ‘Cor blimey, guv’nor, turn it up. I ain’t goin’ to knock you.’.at turn it up, v.1
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 147: Don’t kill that [cigarette], Billser has to get a drag out of it yet.at kill, v.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 75: With his hands trembling, said to His Lord: ‘Cor blimey, guv’nor, turn it up. I ain’t goin’ to knock you.’.at knock, v.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 100: Tell that peeler there to get offside if he does not want a hundredweight of lead to come crashing down on his napper.at napper, n.2
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 41: The owner [...] putting up a warning finger says: ‘Nark it, Brendan, nark it’.at nark it! (excl.) under nark, v.2
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 59: But I thought [...] that she’d be like – like – that she’d be dolled up to the nines – paint and powder and a fur coat maybe.at up to the nines, phr.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 102: Hey you down there, want to get a ’undredweight of lead on your noggin?at noggin, n.1
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 23: My grandmother had me by the hand and as we were walking down the street, we met a friend of hers who said: ‘Come on, Christina, and have one’, meaning come in for a glass of porter.at one, n.1
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 103: This is not like screwing some gaff along the Tottenham Court Road ... a rapid creep in, blow the peter and then scarper.at peter, n.3
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 111: granny grunt and chorus (sings): [...] With you he was a quare one, fol-de-do and g’ ou’ a that, / He was a quare one , I tell you.at quare, adj.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 100: You get it ripped off and shag it down off the roof.at shag, v.2
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 149: She said she was no skivvy.at skivvy, n.2
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 98: sergent: What did he say ‘Ta, ta’ for? I didn’t give him anything. looney: That’s his English way of saying ‘goodbye.’.at ta-ta, n.
Brendan Behan’s Island (1984) 150: It was dangerous tack to leave lying around, where there might be young children.at tack, n.2
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