1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 I am out of hospital now, and almost ready for another bang at Jerry.at bang, n.1
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 Me an’ Hank [...] hadn’t collected us nothin’ more than boocoo pay stoppages an’ extra doses of kitchen fatigues.at beaucoup, n.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 He turned out the cat’s Mac after we got him trained.at cat’s pyjamas, n.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 When a feller is packin’ a actin’ stripe on his arm he’s the one what H.Q. is goina come down on.at come down on, v.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 I’m afraid I’m deucedly crocked up, ol’ man.at crocked, adj.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 The lieutenant tips up the little flask again, an’ then I had to brighten up for the flask was soon dead.at dead, adj.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 I’m afraid I’m deucedly crocked up, ol’ man.at deucedly, adv.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 Them ol’ No-man’s Land pirates was doin’ the heavy dog on the officer’s fancy smokes.at do the dog (v.) under dog, n.2
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 If you hadn’t used your fist with such top-hole effect, I believe that beggar would have got me.at top-hole, adj.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 Jerry had suddenly got the hump.at get the hump (v.) under hump, n.1
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 That little devil of a lieutenant had tracked up a whole Jerry gun-post.at Jerry, adj.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 If this guy was goina giggle out loud on patrol, we figured we was settin’ pretty for a na-poo any ol’ time.at napoo, n.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 He’s some big pum-kins, an’ we got him all wrong.at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 They tell me he’s a reg’lar cissy: one o’ them slap-yer-wrist, awfter-noon-tea artists.at sissy, n.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 So we unlimbers our gats an’ took a streak acrost.at take a streak (v.) under streak, n.
1928 (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 Them scout guys what was under my care insisted I wet that danged stripe out at Poperinghe.at wet, v.
1934 L. Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 Aw, he gave me a callin’ down about somethin’ — that’s all.at calldown, n.
1934 L. Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 Thugs like you have got to dope yourselves up before you find the guts to go through with anything.at dope, v.1
1934 L. Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 Thugs like you have got to dope yourselves up before you find the guts to go through with anything.at dope up (v.) under dope, v.1
1934 L. Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 If only I had a gat in my mitt I’d take them krauts.at kraut, n.
1934 Llewellyn Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 For the love of Pete! [...] You here again?at for the love of Mike! (excl.) under love, n.
1934 Llewellyn Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 This is no place to be petticoat-dreaming or thinking of the days back home.at petticoat, n.