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Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget choose

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[UK] B. Bennett ‘Me and a Spade’ in Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget 12: Out on the snow it was fifty below / And would give a brass monkey the croup.
at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Me and a Spade’ in Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget 13: There were Esquimaux, half a mo’s, Ikey mo’s too.
at half a mo, n.1
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Me and a Spade’ in Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget 13: There were [...] Chinese, and knock-knees, and buzza-bazooks, / That only a mother could tell.
at bashi-bazouk, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Eskimos’ in Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget 28: But before he meets his lassie he must needs Springclean his chassy.
at chassis, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Me and a Spade’ in Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget 13: There were Esquimaux, half a mo’s, Ikey mo’s too.
at ikey-mo, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Eskimos’ Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget 22: The poor old lubber goes to get a feed of blubber.
at lubber, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Drummer Boy’ Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget 25: I was stroking the sergeant’s bald napper.
at napper, n.2
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Me and a Spade’ in Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget 12: I know the stiff, it’s Buffalo Biff.
at stiff, n.1
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