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At Night All Cats are Grey choose

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[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats are Grey 156: Boys-a-boys, thon’s a queer looking yoke.
at boys-a-boys!, excl.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 215: A large tumbler, as usual? And up to the top with aqua!
at aqua, n.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 215: The loud ticking of a wag-o’-the wall.
at wag-at-the-wall, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 71: Give the poor old bags another pint, Tailor.
at bags, n.1
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 51: ‘Let me go, Heel-ball,’ I screamed.
at heel-ball, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 66: Three buckets of porter [...] And a ball of malt for myself.
at ball, n.2
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 256: Bejazus, ye’re an odd duck surely.
at bejazus!, excl.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 132: That dog’ll never best a brock.
at best, v.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats are Grey 43: ‘Ye little blirt,’ he roared. ‘I’ll put manners on ye.’.
at blirt, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 166: Can’t complain. A body must take the rough with the smooth.
at body, n.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 133: The brock has relieved the poor bugger of half his bucking tongue.
at bucking, adj.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 62: He was free with his chippens all right.
at chippens, n.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 75: Don’t encourage the old cod.
at cod, n.4
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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.
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