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[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 189: What I’m on about’s he having it with the bird.
at on about, phr.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 51: As soon as I’ve drawn my ackers, why don’t we all meet in the bar?
at acker, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 33: A smart London kiddo ought to be able to learn them paddies a thing or two about the crooked lark and do all right for himself.
at do all right (for oneself) (v.) under all right, adj.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 174: Nothing lower than a grass, not even a six and four or a ponce or a ginger beer.
at six-and-four, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 63: The coke shovel was damn handy in an up and downer.
at up-and-downer, n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 192: They sat on chintz-covered chairs in the bow-window of the arty-crafty coffee-house.
at arty-(and-)crafty, adj.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 84: Potty having a grumble right here in the drum and letting it go to waste!
at grumble (and grunt), n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 60: Tony and I’ll see to all the bits and bobs.
at bits and bobs, n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 66: Not interested in the other apes, he told Stringy all that had to be said.
at ape, n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 181: You’ve a list of charges against you as long as me arm.
at as long as one’s arm (adj.) under arm, n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 93: Showed what life was: chanced his arm, tried to be a hero.
at chance one’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 159: You two’ve the guts to get across this trappy bit of country without coming an imperial arser.
at arser (n.) under arse, n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 93: Wanted to be all ponced up when you was lifted, so’s the boys wouldn’t see you coming ragged-arsed into the nick.
at ragged-arsed, adj.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 71: Colonel Blencowe tells me you’re a thoroughly bad lot and you need careful watching.
at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 97: No idea about life, none of them: one up on the whole bang shoot!
at whole bang shoot, n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 186: He had to show the swede-bashing sods he was wide and knew his graft.
at swede-bashing, adj.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 85: Them two’ll know what’s coming to them if they starts having a go, opening their beaks and putting in the scream.
at beak, n.2
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 175: Nothing lower than a grass, not even a six and four or a ponce or a ginger beer.
at ginger (beer), n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 33: You’d have a belting time too, in a cushy country like that.
at belting (adj.) under belt, v.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 132: However rough the police treat them, you can bet your boots they’re even sorrier when they’re thrown on the tender mercies of the Prison Commission.
at bet one’s boots (v.) under bet, v.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 32: How many times you want telling, big-head?
at big head, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 188: So you ain’t blagged the full issue off of Ray, that it?
at blag, v.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 18: Don’t be so ferociously blimpish.
at blimpish (adj.) under blimp, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 63: He came to attention with a bolo clatter, peeheeing him by being smart and soldierly.
at bolo, adj.1
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 145: No sense stopping here and being insulted by disloyal, un-English, sentimental Bolshies.
at bolshie, n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 77: If he’d learned Valerie was the one who’d lured him to the cosh-boys, he’d have gone stark, raving mad, but starkers.
at stark staring bonkers, adj.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 32: Wouldn’t be much bottle at the job if he couldn’t manage that.
at no bottle, phr.2
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 63: The only wide man in the room, it was up to him to box clever and use his nut.
at box clever (v.) under box, v.2
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 84: You could use your loaf.
at use one’s loaf (v.) under loaf (of bread), n.
[UK] J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 38: I understand you, me bucko.
at bucko, n.1
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