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Babe is Wise choose

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[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 216: So c’m on now [...] or we won’t be in town till half pas’ kissing-time.
at half past kissing time (and time to kiss again), phr.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 312: My married life hasn’t been all stout an’ oysters, let me tell you!
at all beer and skittles, phr.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 211: ‘I’m gonner sleep somewhere else,’ she tells me, ’oity-toity.’ ‘Oh,’ I backchats, ‘w’ere?’.
at backchat, v.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 360: A football match was in progress. [...] Every now and then one could hear the muffled roar of the ‘barrackers’.
at barrack, v.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 299: I’m one of those fleshy blighters who believe in lining the old bread-basket at regular intervals.
at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 313: Your chap’s been through a B. of a time while you’ve been sick.
at bugger, n.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 217: You don’t say! An’ here I’ve been buttering you up, coz I thought you might be first cousins t’ Henry Ford!
at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 352: He [...] swallowed a couple of raw eggs with a ‘chaser’ of bread.
at chaser, n.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe Is Wise 205: Then I know w’at it is . . . you’re a dag with a skirt.
at dag, n.2
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 312: You couldn’t blame ’im really for answering back, like. But I did [...] and lor, didn’t we have some ding-dong go-ins!
at ding-dong, adj.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 95: Turning dog on me, are you, eh, you little Yiddish rotter!
at turn dog (v.) under dog, n.2
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 93: I’m damned if I can be fagged starting all over again with someone else.
at fag, v.3
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 312: You couldn’t blame ’im really for answering back, like. But I did [...] and lor, didn’t we have some ding-dong go-ins!
at go-in, n.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 284: A youth had gone bawling ‘You’re my funny honey bunny an’ I’m sartinly a-gonna be yours!’.
at honey, n.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 231: These Ikes’re no different t’anyone else once they make a bit o’ dough. [...] Believe me you wouldn’t see Moma an’ Poppa an’ all the little Yids for dust . . .
at Ike, n.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 194: You look all sort of jazzed up.
at jazzed (up), adj.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 298: The old josher had evidently pegged out.
at josher, n.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 211: I grabs her rump-tump-timp hard as you like, so she wakes up. An’ does she gimme the rounds of the kitchen! Pitches into me like I dunno w’at.
at give someone the rounds of the kitchen (v.) under kitchen, n.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 142: ‘My land !’ she ejaculated, goggling.
at my land! (excl.) under land, n.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 193: I can’t imagine a Rudolph Valentino like you going on bus-rides on a chillsome night on your Pat Malone.
at on one’s pat (malone) (adj.) under pat malone, n.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 219: Makes a tie, religion. I mean when it’s the same. An’, my word can’t it make a muck up when it’s not!
at muck-up, n.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 313: I dunno the details, like, Mac being an oyster w’en he wants to be.
at oyster, n.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 313: There was just a chance o’ Mac being put off, or he thought there was—got the wind up, you know, coz other firms was chucking ’em out right an’ left.
at put off (v.) under put, v.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 95: Turning dog on me, are you, eh, you little Yiddish rotter!
at rotter, n.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 313: Now, you’re not scottie with me, are you?
at scotty, adj.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 94: He had submitted his arm to the ‘shot’ and waited till it had begun to take effect.
at shot, n.1
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 311: Just take a squizz at yourself in the glass for once.
at squiz, n.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 315: Some day w’en I wanter look real swish [...] I’ll buy a dresslength, an’ you c’n make it up for me so I’ll look a knock-out.
at swish, adj.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 311: Mrs. Mac ‘toddled off home with “his nibs” to wollop the kids for whatever they’d gone an done during the afternoon.’.
at wallop, v.
[UK] J. Campbell Babe is Wise 313: There was just a chance o’ Mac being put off, or he thought there was — got the wind up, you know, coz other firms was chucking ’em out right an’ left.
at get one’s/the wind up (v.) under wind, n.2
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