1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats are Grey 156: Boys-a-boys, thon’s a queer looking yoke.at boys-a-boys!, excl.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 108: Mooching around from Billy to Jack with a neb on her like a wet week.at like a wet week under like a..., phr.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 71: A black and tan for my old friend, Krueger [...] You can top it up with porter, Mr. Donoghue, the beer’s in it already.at black-and-tan, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 95: You didn’t get that coffin out on appro. You bought it from me for five pounds, ten. Right?at on appro (adv.) under appro, n.1
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 166: A man come to your time of life should have his family reared instead of being still tied to his mother’s apron-strings.at tied to someone’s apron-strings (adj.) under apron-strings, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 215: A large tumbler, as usual? And up to the top with aqua!at aqua, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 69: To think of that barbarous bloody quack [...] chancing his arm at a minute job like removing a body’s testaments. [Ibid.] 169: He has asked me out for the morrow night. D’you think should I chance my arm and go out with him?at chance one’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 215: The loud ticking of a wag-o’-the wall.at wag-at-the-wall, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 71: Give the poor old bags another pint, Tailor.at bags, n.1
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 66: Three buckets of porter [...] And a ball of malt for myself.at ball, n.2
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 72: When the bloody bashi-bazouk gets his breath back he reaches for the pint again.at bashi-bazouk, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 153: ‘She’s a proper beaut!’ I said, not rightly knowing if I meant Cassie or the mare.at beaut, n.1
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 82: Musky Burke – a harmless poor gawn [...] who every evening made a round of The Stations on his bare benders.at bender, n.1
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 171: I’ll hould you it was the young blade was round with the tally sheets.at blade, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats are Grey 43: ‘Ye little blirt,’ he roared. ‘I’ll put manners on ye.’.at blirt, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 166: Can’t complain. A body must take the rough with the smooth.at body, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 68: Apparently the bloody cut-throat had the brass neck to call to see Kreuger the next day.at brass neck, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 90: The young buck was still licking his chops when Myko comes into the bar.at buck, n.1
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 133: The brock has relieved the poor bugger of half his bucking tongue.at bucking, adj.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 66: The greedy gulpin always tore his way through a drink for fear he’d miss the chance of another going buckshee.at buckshee, adj.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 62: It’s a wonder you weren’t at the Doctor’s funeral. The pair of you were great butties.at butty, n.1
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats are Grey 60: Now when Tailor is carrying he will buy with the best of them. And sure enough he produced a sheaf of crinklers.at carry, v.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 78: You’d think a miserly cleg the like of Doyle would be more careful with his money.at cleg, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats are Grey 66: He makes bloody few mistakes as far as needling for drink is concerned, even the Scroggy-man would be put to the pin of his collar to best him.at put to the pin of one’s collar (v.) under collar, n.
1966 P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 67: The Kreuger-man stretched out in a drunken stupor on the cow-house floor, his fly wide open and his credentials exhibited for all the world to see.at credentials, n.