1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 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
1937 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.
1937 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
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 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
1937 J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 214: I’ll be bitched if I do it.at bitched (up) (adj.) under bitch, v.
1937 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.
1937 J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 10: ‘Got Tommy’s tea yet?’ ‘Blimey, watchew expect?’.at blimey!, excl.
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 142: I don’t see what you’re bumming your chat about.at bum, v.2
1937 J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 33: The management has decided to add a further contest to a bumper bill.at bumper, adj.
1937 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.
1937 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
1937 J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 143: Cut your cackle and come to the hosses.at cut the cackle (v.) under cackle, n.
1937 J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 115–6: I seen better things than him down the pans of public carsies.at carsey, n.
1937 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
1937 J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 231: Did you thrill when you felt him taking your cherry?at cherry, n.1