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Billy Bennett’s Third Budget choose

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[UK] B. Bennett ‘A Soldier’s Soliloquy’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 13: The sergeant said, ‘What were you in civvy life?’.
at civvie, adj.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Doctor Goosegrease’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 15: All your doctors are saps — all excepting me, p’raps.
at sap, n.2
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Doctor Goosegrease’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 15: All your doctors are saps — all excepting me, p’raps, / And I speak without swank or bravado.
at swank, n.2
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Trumpeter’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 33: So I tell them that it’s rissoles / And they say, ‘The same to you’.
at arseholes! (excl.) under arsehole, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Doctor Goosegrease’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 15: It’ll shift housemaid’s knees, B.O., or D.T.’s.
at b.o., n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Sobstuff Sister’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 18: Each week she was in a schemozzle, / Either biting the ears off Clark Gable, / Or biting the boko off Schnozzle.
at boko, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Street of a Thousand Lanterns’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 31: They saw the young man called Hugh Pi Kan / Showing Wong-Wong his box of tricks.
at box of tricks (n.) under box of..., n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Street of a Thousand Lanterns’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 29: In the street of a thousand lanterns, / To the east of Limehouse Reach, / Lived a bland Chinee, who loved the sea.
at Chinee, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Doctor Goosegrease’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 17: In my beauty parlour I tranfom the faces / Of women to look in their prime. / Talking about altering clocks back and forward, / I’ve pushed back some clocks in my time.
at clock, n.1
[UK] B. Bennett ‘A Soldier’s Soliloquy’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 11: By special request of a few college chums from the Aldershot Glasshouse.
at college chum (n.) under college, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘A Tale of the Rockies’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 26: He was shot in two places, when down came his braces, / He’d to hold up his how-do-you-does.
at how-do-you-do, n.1
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Doctor Goosegrease’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 17: I turn flappers’ pimples into beautiful dimples.
at flapper, n.2
[UK] B. Bennett ‘A Soldier’s Soliloquy’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 11: By special request of a few college chums from the Aldershot Glasshouse.
at glasshouse, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘A Tale of the Rockies’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 25: Jim was the tough guy of Texas, / Quick on the draw was Jim.
at tough guy, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Sobstuff Sister’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 18: The wise guys and yobs payed their tanners and bobs.
at wise guy, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Street of a Thousand Lanterns’ Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 29: She’d jump out of bed, sling pots at his head, / While the neighbours cried, ‘Stick it, Jerry’.
at stick it!, excl.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Sobstuff Sister’ Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 20: She was riddled with lead and the film maggot said, / ‘If she leaves the films, what will the loss be?’.
at maggot, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Doctor Goosegrease’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 16: When my tonic he’s had, he’ll feel like a young lad, / There’ll be no one more pleased than his missus.
at missis, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Dampoor Express’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 39: I shot him where the monkey used to gather all his nuts.
at where the monkey puts his/the nuts (n.) under monkey, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘A Tale of the Rockies’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 25: And on his what-not a screen wiper he’d got / To stop the flies tickling his fetlock.
at what-not, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Street of a Thousand Lanterns’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 29: He’d a wife called Who-flung-poo-poo.
at poo, n.1
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Trumpeter’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 33: The dinner smells good, p’raps it’s suetty pud.
at pud, n.1
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Street of a Thousand Lanterns’ Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 30: If the tiddley Chinks had too many drinks, They’d go out to see a man about a bow-wow.
at see a man about a dog (v.) under see, v.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Sobstuff Sister’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 18: Each week she was in a schemozzle, / Either biting the ears off Clark Gable, / Or biting the boko off Schnozzle.
at shemozzle, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Sobstuff Sister’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 20: Sal’s got Garbo skinned to the eyebrows / She got Mae West skinned to the hips.
at skinned, adj.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Sobstuff Sister’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 18: Sal was a sobstuff sister, / On the pictures she’d shed tears galore.
at sob stuff (n.) under sob, n.1
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Sobstuff Sister’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 20: She’s a trier, a trooper, some gel.
at some, adj.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Trumpeter’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 34: But she mixed with the swanks — she rose from the ranks — / And now she’s an officer’s mess.
at swank, n.2
[UK] B. Bennett ‘Doctor Goosegrease’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 16: It’s good for the thatch, if you’ve got a bald patch.
at thatch, n.
[UK] B. Bennett ‘The Street of a Thousand Lanterns’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 30: If the tiddley Chinks had too many drinks, They’d go out to see a man about a bow-wow.
at tiddly, adj.1
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