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in That Was Business, This Is Personal 22: My few mates in jail used to think, I’m sure, that I wasn’t all there.at not all there, adj.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 22: My few mates in jail used to think, I’m sure, that I wasn’t all there. in That Was Business, This Is Personal 20: Smalls was now with a sort of wild bunch from Ealing. Animals, really. Morons.at animal, n.1
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 13: Everyone still manages to laugh and joke. You laugh your bollocks off . . . nervous release of some kind I suppose.at ballocks, n.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 23: My probation officer was a nice geezer [...] I was bang lucky to get him.at bang, adv.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 15: I got a thorough belting for escaping from the police.at belting (n.) under belt, v.
That Was Business, This Is Personal 3: The end of the sixties and early seventies saw the emergence of the ‘Face’ [...] They described themselves as ‘at it,’ ‘on the pavement’. The police called them ‘blaggers’.at blagger (n.) under blag, v.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 13: All the briefs looked like a row of bedraggled crows.at brief, n.1
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 14: That was the start, having got away with it [a robbery] and got the buzz out of it.at buzz, n.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 16: Small jewellers, terrorise the staff, grab everything in the showcases and leg it out to a stolen car. Very cowboyish.at cowboy, n.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 13: All the cozzers shrugged and tried to look sympathetic — as we’d been paying them off for years, that didn’t surprise me.at cozzer, n.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 19: We watched American films because we thought British gangster films were crap.at crap, adj.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 16: We would go home dutifully in the evening and see our wives and then we would be out on the razzle.at on the razzle dazzle (phr.) under razzle-dazzle, n.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 18: Two of them showed up [...] A big dopey one driving and a right smart geezer who was an inspector.at dopey, adj.2
(ref. to 1960s–70s) That Was Business, This Is Personal 3: The end of the sixties and early seventies saw the emergence of the ‘Face’, the armed robber who worked in a small team, [and] had little interest in controlling territory beyond a nice mansion house in Hertfordshire or Essex.at face, n.
That Was Business, This Is Personal 3: [Armed robbers] had little to do with the old family ‘firms’ and little interest in owning clubs and casinos like the Krays.at firm, n.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 19: One or two little clubs we knew that were frequented by [...] pretty good hoisters, a group of Australians we knew.at hoister, n.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 19: I want a drink out of it [i.e. a robbery] but I’m not in on it.at in on, adv.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 22: That’s not a kick in the arse off being a loony Nazi.at kick in the arse (n.) under kick, n.5
That Was Business, This Is Personal 6: The ‘long firm’ fraud — the setting up of a bogus company, acquiring vast credit over a long period and then vanishing.at long firm (n.) under long, adj.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 15: I got nicked with another guy syphoning petrol. Pretty low-life stuff, this — I was skint.at lowlife, adj.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 13: All the women, all the gangsters’ molls, they were all done up to the nines.at moll, n.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 19: I went into the bank in a suit and was writing a moody cheque out.at moody, adj.
That Was Business, This Is Personal 5: Some [drug dealers] muscled in to existing markets, others helped create their own.at muscle in (v.) under muscle, v.
That Was Business, This Is Personal 14: They climbed up a drainpipe, went in through the roof and ‘nicked everything that was nickable’.at nickable (adj.) under nick, v.1
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 15: I got nicked with another guy syphoning petrol.at nicked, adj.1
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 13: All the women, all the gangsters’ molls, they were all done up to the nines.at up to the nines, phr.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 19: They were just after dough, I don’t think they had anything on him.at on, prep.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 35: It was a treat to go to the Isle of Wight and come back not feeling absolutely whacked out.at whacked out, adj.
That Was Business, This Is Personal 3: The end of the sixties and early seventies saw the emergence of the ‘Face’ [...] They described themselves as ‘at it,’ ‘on the pavement’.at on the pavement under pavement, n.
in That Was Business, This Is Personal 16: Always you were sniffing around and people were putting things up to you and you were looking at them.at put up, v.
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