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Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack choose

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[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 128: Two sailors we had seen off an English ship [....] ‘drunk as two Nicodemons’.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 33: Where the arse wunnuh think wunnuh going?
at what the arse...? under arse, n.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 65: An inswinger that travelled at ‘ninety kiss-me-arse miles an hour, boy!’ .
at kiss-my-ass, adj.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 95: Be-Jesus Christ, if I didn’t know your mother [...] I would drive this piece o’ iron into your fucking head.
at bejazus!, excl.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 66: I nods my cap to the ’Pire, and from that moment on it is bram! bram! [...] the fastest bowling in island!
at bradarax!, excl.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 78: Boy, you bright as shite!
at bright, adj.3
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 21: When the King want to wee-wee or fire a shit, all the King got to do is...
at fire, v.3
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 29: Man, fire one!
at fire, v.4
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 95: Now, haul all your arses and help me load back these blasted canes on this lorry!
at haul oneself (v.) under haul, v.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 23: Boys who were [...] ‘bad’ and who were ‘too mannish’.
at mannish, adj.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 64: Why the five o’ wunnuh don’t move outta the rass-hole road!
at raashole, adj.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 78: Boy, you bright as shite!
at as shit (adv.) under shit, n.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 64: Get to shite off! Get off!
at get to shite off! (excl.) under shite, n.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 8: Big boys, the school prefects and the masters [...] jeered and ‘skinned’ their teeth at me.
at skin (one’s) teeth (v.) under skin, v.1
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 163: How things, daughter? I so-so.
at so-so, adv.
[WI] A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 6: One of the ‘uncles’ in that vicious circle of men with a pair of scissors and a broken glass bottle for a razor.
at uncle, n.
[WI] R. Baker Growing Up 72: Barney Google was a comic strip character and Sparkplug was his racehorse, a stolid square-cut hay burner to whom Barney was devoted.
at hay burner, n.1
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