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[UK] Dickens Hard Times (1969) 74: He was goosed last night, he was goosed the night before last, he was goosed today.
at goose, v.2
[UK] Dickens Hard Times (1969) 73: If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors, and take it out.
at ochre, n.
[UK] Dickens Hard Times 8: She must just hate and detest the whole set-out of us.
at set-out, n.
[UK] (con. 1930s) in ‘Studs’ Terkel Hard Times 183: Those were pretty big give-ups in those days.
at give-up, n.
[UK] S. Terkel Hard Times 438: So why in the billy hell has this happening taken the limelight for me over all the others?
at billy hell (n.) under hell, n.
[UK] S. Terkel Hard Times 38: Once in a while somebody would take a nosedive, profess religion. They’d stick around a while, just to have a roof.
at nosedive, n.
[UK] (con. 1930s) S. Twerkel (ed.) Hard Times 27: We jungled up there for a little while, and then we bummed the town.
at jungle up (v.) under jungle, n.
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