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There Ain’t No Justice choose

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[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 46: ‘Going home, Tom?’ said Fred. ‘Yes.’ ‘Half a mo’. I’ll come with you.’.
at half a mo, phr.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 170: Gawd love a duck, like to have a pound I would for every baby I brought into the world.
at gawd love-a-duck!, excl.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 86: Maybe she was short of a bit. It was on the cards that Arthur could not serve her good. He looked a weakling sort of a bastard.
at short of a sheet, phr.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 114–5: How you come to let a bastard like him mess you about beats me.
at mess about, v.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 238: Allsbay. You can’t tell me that.
at allsbay, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 46: I know big blokes, real gamblers. Blokes what’ll speculate a thousand pound on a good chance and you can meet ’em, see. Just so long as you bring home the bacon.
at bring home the bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 194: All I bleeding do is train and fight and fight and train till I’m sick and tired of the whole bag of tricks, so there.
at whole bag of tricks, the, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 42: The news gets round all my fights are in the bag.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 201: It looks like I got you by the knackers, don’t it?
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 216: For Christ’s sake get your hair cut before you go into the ring to-morrow night. The old timers ’d of bin ashamed to have bin seen with Barnet Fair like what you’ve got.
at barnet (fair), n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 41: ‘Got a fag?’ ‘No, I ain’t got a bastard.’.
at bastard, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 86: Maybe she was short of a bit. It was on the cards that Arthur could not serve her good. He looked a weakling sort of a bastard.
at bit, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 214: I’ll be bitched if I do it.
at bitched (up) (adj.) under bitch, v.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 224: ‘Does she love you?’ ‘Gor blimey now you’re arsting me something. I don’t know and that’s what’s biting me.’.
at bite, v.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 10: ‘Got Tommy’s tea yet?’ ‘Blimey, watchew expect?’.
at blimey!, excl.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 212: He didn’t know how much Sammy and Arthur knew. They might be trying to bluff the boy into giving himself away.
at bluff, v.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 94: Maybe the book’ll wear up to a fiver’s worth of my dough.
at book, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 205: You’d have probably won a bit of dough, got yourself boozed up and then spilled the whole story.
at boozed, adj.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 162: ‘How’s things?’ ‘Tower bridge,’ said Reg. ‘How’re they with you?’ ‘Up and down, same as with you.’.
at tower bridge, phr.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 142: I don’t see what you’re bumming your chat about.
at bum, v.2
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 33: The management has decided to add a further contest to a bumper bill.
at bumper, adj.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 77: You wouldn’t have to give up your market work and the extra money would be all bunce.
at bunce, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 34: ‘You come from the Bush, don’t you?’ ‘Wilsham Street, Notting Dale, but I get round the Bush a bit.’.
at Bush, the, n.2
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 143: Cut your cackle and come to the hosses.
at cut the cackle (v.) under cackle, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 274: Let’s take a camerer cuss.
at camerer cuss, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 115–6: I seen better things than him down the pans of public carsies.
at carsey, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 17: ‘How’s chances for a fag?’ ‘No chance.’.
at no chance, phr.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 13: That’ll be the old chap.
at old chap, n.
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 259: I ought to have known better. Taking up with a piece of cheese like you.
at cheese, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 231: Did you thrill when you felt him taking your cherry?
at cherry, n.1
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