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The Crust on Its Uppers choose

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[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 19: I assure you I’m all about trout.
at all about trout, phr.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 48: Don’t know what you’re on about.
at on about, phr.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 103: ’Ere’s the ammo for it.
at ammo, n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 57: He’d [...] live on the odd cock-and-hen between being in the nick.
at cock and hen, n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 60: Marchmare and I dived for the apples.
at apples (and pears), n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 41: Lifting one leg and scratching his bottle.
at bottle (and glass), n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 80: She’s none too well fixed for the dot-and-dash.
at dot and dash, n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 41: Not six-and-eight exactly, but settled down very cosy.
at six-and-eight, adj.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 34: When it came to paying the duke with my beehives down to a bit of archbishop.
at Archbishop (Laud), n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 55: A bit of argle-bargle with Mike.
at argle-bargle, n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 55: We [...] have it away over there very smartly.
at have it away, v.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 34: There they are in court [...] down to having it away with someone’s spoons.
at have it away (with), v.1
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 147: ‘Ah, bollox,’ said Marchmare.
at ballocks!, excl.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 164: For all they knew Marchmare could be happily batting on to the next town.
at bat, v.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 58: You don’t know what it’s like, havin’ to go on the batter.
at batter, v.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 21: You’ll find it’s somewhere along the Baize.
at Baze, the, n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 29: I used to pull out a couple of ton in beehives.
at beehive, n.2
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 153: Plinth and his boys had had a bellyfull of us.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 55: We go belting off to Winston’s.
at belt, v.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 66: The bent punters who are supposed to be bending the game pour la maison.
at bend, v.2
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 53: After a right old bevvy-up at Aristov’s.
at bevvy-up (n.) under bevvy, v.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 23: We nipped smartly off for a bevvy.
at bevvy, n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 47: Big deal. Really big.
at big deal, n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 26: As for Old Bill, the law, who can’t leave us alone [...] he’s a groove behind.
at Old Bill, n.
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 102: Mr. Cream looks gloomy and heartbroken behind his twenty-guinea binns.
at bins, n.2
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 30: I used to have lots of rows with Marchmare on the subject of bird.
at bird, n.1
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 20: Me not having done any bird.
at bird, n.4
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 31: I’d pop down [...] with a view to putting the bite on for some reddy.
at put the bite on (v.) under bite, n.1
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 23: We were doing some biz near Munich.
at biz, n.1
[UK] R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 15: This is no blag [...] it’s a tale of someone who wanted to go and go.
at blag, n.
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