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[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 58: It’s cold enough to blow the balls off a brass monkey.
at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 94: ‘Would you Mike?’ ‘Would a cat drink milk?’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 174: What are you on about?
at on about, phr.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 47: I won’t sit and hear Jem Larkin insulted in me own house by a so-and-so woman that knows nothing about anything but bloody babies!
at so-and-so, adj.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 88: You’re bloody Darby-and-Joan now, me bucko, thinking the sun shines out of her, but wait till you’ve a gang of snotty-nosed, shitty-arsed crying little demons around you.
at darby and joan, adj.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 111: You big fat-arsed coward!
at fat-arse, adj.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 205: Up from the arsehole of the country you’d think you were.
at arsehole, n.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 165: That oul bitch next door had no right to grow bloody tulips right in the arsehold of her onion patch.
at arsehole, n.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 77: Safe as a house, Bridie.
at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 85: That oul bee would rob his own mother.
at b, n.1
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 142: ‘Have you no others?’ enquired the priest [...] ‘All married, Father, bad cess to them,’ sighed the widow.
at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 49: Let them all see how you saddled me with your litter of bastards! There’s probably another one in the bag as it is!
at bag, n.1
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 94: Get up till I bandjax the living daylights out of you!
at banjax, v.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 83: I will [...] if I can find the bloody bastarding bottle!
at bastarding (adj.) under bastard, n.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 155: And would you kindly take your eyes off my bazooka?
at bazooka, n.1
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 193: He has parted the whiskers too often, maybe, but in God’s name what was a man made for and why was he made the way he was if not for that?
at split the beard (v.) under beard, n.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days (1990) 76: Aye, with the Chief himself, bedad, and all the boys.
at bedad!, excl.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 79: Bejasus, girls, there’ll be no more holding me from now on!
at bejazus!, excl.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 30: Its belly-button stood out on its distended abdomen like knot of wool as Mother washed and powdered it.
at belly button (n.) under belly, n.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 160: What’s new over there in the Big Smoke?
at Big Smoke, n.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 165: She was supposed to turn when she married poor Paddy Kerrigan, but anyone can see she’s still a black bloody Protestant at heart.
at black Protestant (n.) under black, adj.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 47: ‘I won’t eat me bollacking dinner,’ said Father, roaring again. [Ibid.] 162: ‘Great bollacking Jesus!’ somebody whispered with profound awe.
at bollacking, adj.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 192: Don’t be seeing that drunken bowsie, her black-shawled little ferret of an aunt would say.
at bowsie, n.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 95: Did you have to put up with being called a hoor and brasser and fornicator [...] ?
at brasser, n.1
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 88: You’re bloody Darby-and-Joan now, me bucko.
at bucko, n.1
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 26: They dipped thick cuts of dry bread and the hard ‘heels’ of loaves which were also called ‘catskins’.
at cat-skin (n.) under cat, n.1
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 139: She was no chicken ... thirty if she was a day.
at no chicken under chicken, n.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 28: ‘Still and all, for the sake of the chisellers, I mean,’ said the brown-booted kindly man.
at chiseller, n.
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 67: Out fornicating with that corner-boy! I’ll break her two legs when she does come in!
at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
[Ire] C. Brown Down All the Days 170: That frosty-nosed bastard of a Corkman [...] A bleeding culshie for your life.
at culchie, n.
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