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They Drive by Night choose

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[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 283: Let a bloke have a spit and a drag I shouldn’t wonder.
at spit and a drag, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 87: Oh yeah? Left your coat behind on a night like this. Don’t come that old acid. We wasn’t born yesterday.
at come the (old) acid (v.) under acid, n.2
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 77: Let’s go and have a cup of ackermaracker.
at ackermaracker, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 57: She would ask this geezer for half a quid. If he come across she’d be able to buy a new pair of cami-knicks.
at come across, v.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 122: Blimey, even you don’t adam and eve it.
at Adam (and Eve), v.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 275: All I got to do is weigh up when the topper’s likely to get to work and give a jump into the air. Well, down I come on sweet fanny adams and break my bleeding neck. It’s me who’s killed myself.
at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 62: He looked the sort of bloke a girl could string along.
at string (along), v.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 79: ‘Takes a bit of bleeding doing.’ ‘I should cocoa.’.
at coffee and cocoa, v.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 103: Give us a hand out, will you? I’m in a right two and eight.
at two and eight, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 52: You must have been galloping your antelope, I’m thinking.
at gallop one’s antelope, v.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 176: After a bit of argy-bargy they sets about me.
at argy-bargy, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 254: Here, what’s the game? Watchew getting at?
at get at, v.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 98: Tied up in these back doubles.
at back double (n.) under back, adj.2
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 43: There’s bags of stuff on the road.
at bags (of), n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 277: You get bigheads writing to the papers saying that flogging ought to be brought in for this, that, and the other. I’d like them to have a basinful.
at basinful, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 52: Give us a hand to sling this bastard up on top there.
at bastard, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 185: [He] was just about as browned off with the old-timer’s reminiscences as he was with Alf’s bellyache.
at bellyache, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 232: You wasn’t no loss when you got the belt.
at get the belt (v.) under belt, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 23: That poor bastard Allen wasn’t never going to see a tart in bed again. [...] No more of the old Sir Berkeley for him.
at Sir Berkeley, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 32: Don’t talk berkish.
at berkish, adv.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 277: You get bigheads writing to the papers saying that flogging ought to be brought in for this, that, and the other. I’d like them to have a basinful.
at big head, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 229: The old-timer drove all right too, even if he was a bit of a big-mouth.
at bigmouth, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 214: ‘Billo’. A couple of youths came up to the top deck and sat behind Shorty. One of them looked at Molly with a hunter’s eye.
at billo!, excl.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 153: Now I come to think of it, he was a funny-looking bimbo.
at bimbo, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 14: If you’d never done a bit of bird you didn’t know what it was like when they topped a guy.
at bird, n.4
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 20: Right dopey bastard he was with a lovely bit like this.
at bit, n.1
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 82: Now I’m messed and bitched about from pillar to bloody post.
at bitch, v.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 75: Ought to do away with these bleeders. Reglar death-traps.
at bleeder, n.
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 79: Come all this bleeding way they had and he’d hardly said a blind word.
at blind, adj.2
[UK] J. Curtis They Drive by Night 168: He drove carefully through Chesterfield. He couldn’t afford another blister.
at blister, n.1
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