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Waiting for Sheila choose

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[UK] G. Solberg Sheila 70: I cramp the wheel, flicking into low, and mash the gas. Scrrech- rrrangg!!!
at mash the gas (v.) under mash, v.
[UK] (con. 1944) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 98: That’s san fairy ann to me.
at san fairy ann, phr.
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 12: She can be the world’s worst bitch, but she’s not a ball-breaker.
at ball-breaker, n.
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 102: You just had to bite the bullet, get on or go under.
at bite the bullet (v.) under bite, v.
[UK] (con. 1944) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 52: Fuck the – the – bloody – buggering – thing!
at buggering, adj.
[UK] (con. 1944) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 90: I’ll take you for a spin in my little bus.
at bus, n.2
[UK] (con. 1944) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 53: Come on, lad. Beddy bye-byes then. Sleep it off.
at bye-bye(s), n.
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 127: Ready for it. Ready for the big event. Ready to lose my cherry.
at lose one’s cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 81: Hell [...] the Chev only needs it every ten thousand miles.
at Chevvy, n.
[UK] (con. 1944) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 71: ‘The cunt,’ he said, ‘the nasty little Scottish cunt!’.
at cunt, n.
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 11: They’re not professional dazzlers, they are ordinary women.
at dazzler, n.
[UK] (con. 1950s) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 120: Didn’t you do anything for her? No finger pie?
at finger pie (n.) under finger, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s–50s) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 64: ‘The man gets out his John Thomas –’ he giggled. [Ibid.] 119: You’d no sooner got out of the car than she whipped out my John Thomas.
at John Thomas, n.
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 31: Their clothes are laundered and regularly dry-cleaned and they wouldn’t be seen dead in dirty second-hand trendy kit.
at kit, n.2
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 125: There’s no anaesthetic except rum, and the loblolly men are holding me down.
at loblolly boy (n.) under loblolly, n.
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 101: If there’s a pokeable woman around it grows to a respectable length of six inches.
at pokeable (adj.) under poke, v.
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 109: I didn’t passionately disagree with any of it either, so I couldn’t give her a run for her money.
at give someone a run for their money (v.) under run, n.
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 149: If Henry wanted a whisky on top of a skinful, she let him have it.
at skinful, n.
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 127: The lout, the hooligan, the slob.
at slob, n.1
[UK] (con. 1944) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 98: I see your mother’s using the best room again. She’ll make it a proper tip soon.
at tip, n.8
[UK] (con. 1944) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 49: I’ll tootle over and ask her.
at tootle, v.1
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 96: I wouldn’t touch the sod with a bargepole.
at wouldn’t touch it with a (barge-)pole under touch, v.1
[UK] J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 17: The owner, an advertising whizz-kid in his thirties, was running out of whizz.
at whiz, n.1
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