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[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 39: I [...] help myself to a bit of A-1 crumpet.
at A-1, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 138: The heart’s gone out [...] Nobody gives a tinker’s.
at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 310: Letting the devil muck us about.
at muck about, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 129: One night, legless, she started acting up.
at act up, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 173: Nothing life-threatening, just aggro and name-calling.
at aggro, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 340: It’s not some New Age airy-fairy crap.
at airy-fairy, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 356: It’s dossers like us, pathetic alky misfits, who are ruining the West End.
at alky, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 38: A pain in the arse to one and all.
at pain in the arse, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 127: I could turn him to dogmeat, easy as piss.
at easy as piss, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 29: Rear View [...] the ass-man’s equivalent to an unperforated penny black.
at ass-man (n.) under ass, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 337: No point in beating about the bush – Odin kicks ass.
at kick ass, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 7: Rather an ardent fascist than a half-arsed liberal.
at half-assed, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 201: His recent plans [have all been] bolloxed by the fuck-ups and rank amateurs he’s forced to work with.
at ballocks (up), v.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 121: They may have cut off my bollocks [...] but my dick doesn’t know that yet.
at ballocks, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 28: These pimps [...] they worthy to have their balls cut off.
at balls, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 200: The immorality is lack of self-pride and lack of balls.
at balls, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 57: It all comes piling out, everything that’s banged up within her.
at banged up, adj.2
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 293: Bazunga-breasted amazons.
at bazongas, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 200: The Hooray Henrys with their beepers and beamers.
at Beamer, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 337: No point in beating about the bush.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 280: The Tom Jones wannabe in the karaoke pub [...] is belting out ‘Delilah’.
at belt out (v.) under belt, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 86: Transvestites weren’t yet the fashionable gender-bender icons they have become.
at gender-bender, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 200: Bent cops go back on their deals.
at bent, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 317: be your own leader, you feeble burke.
at berk, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 149: I thought this was the biggie.
at biggie, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 43: The teenage bimbettes with their halter-tops.
at bimbette, n.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 50: Blagging [...] everyone knows what it means: hustling for people too lazy to really hustle.
at blag, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 50: Blaggers merely look for soft options.
at blagger (n.) under blag, v.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We Have No 320: We can only get tickets for the nose-bleed seats, [...] remote from the stage.
at nose-bleed, adj.
[UK] N. Cohn Yes We have No 201: Just take a blimp at Blair’s teeth.
at blimp, n.2
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