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[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 165: Maybe I could have been a big fella with cars and maids but I don’t give two tuppeny turds.
at not give a tuppenny damn, v.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 68: O I tell you, its coming along a jolly treat.
at treat, a, adv.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 13: My cousin, who looked like a cow’s arse, wouldn’t even come across.
at come across, v.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 268: I hope to see your arse in the Old Bailey.
at arse, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 44: There I was, on hard cold stone mumbling hail marys and thinking of ass I was missing in Dublin. [Ibid.] 365: And tell me, how do you manage to get so much ass?
at ass, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 178: ‘God save the King.’ ‘Bollocks the King.’.
at ballocks!, excl.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 303: ‘Tone, pride has you at its mercy.’ ‘Has me by the very ballocks.’.
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 169: Can’t miss this bash.
at bash, n.1
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 40: For the first time in months I’ve got a few beans.
at beans, n.1
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 165: I’ma porter there. That’s the big cheese.
at big cheese, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 23: I’m making sixty-three thousand big bucks a year.
at big bucks, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 282: I prefer to feel that the Big Chief up there started us with Adam and Eve.
at big boss, the, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 160: Don’t you want a bit?
at bit, n.1
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 169: Clocklan, I’m suffering from a woeful case of blackdog.
at black dog, n.2
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 166: I should have been a priest and have [...] a housekeeper with boobs like pyramids.
at boob, n.3
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 113: Soles of the feet warming deliciously and the brown gargle as they say was putting the mind afloat.
at brown gargle (n.) under brown, adj.2
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 87: Say, bub, you’re a moral leper.
at bub, n.3
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 273: Jolly good show, this. Quite. In fact, bung, frightfully ho.
at bung ho, adj.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 276: Lilly, I never get tired of your white thirty-four year old bubas, buns or beauties. Or will I get over how much I like to imagine them under that green pajama top.
at buns, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 165: These ould bastards who come in at night full of red biddy and do their business all over the floors.
at do one’s business (v.) under business, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 69: I know how you go and butter up your professors.
at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 48: Get down there in that little nest of a kitchen and buzz on the coffee.
at buzz, v.1
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 204: I think I’m going to go bye-bye.
at go (to) bye-bye(s) (v.) under bye-bye(s), n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 39: Jesus, I’m excited, like I was going to lose my cherry.
at lose one’s cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 197: ‘It’s great for sore throats.’ ‘Cod.’.
at cod, n.5
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 180: You’re just trying to cod me.
at cod, v.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 155: Please, God, don’t let Skully meet Marion or my goose will be cooked beyond recognition.
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 102: No use getting meself upset by the crut.
at crut, n.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 364: My efforts met with blowing and no throwing which makes me think I need to see the coo coo doctor.
at cuckoo, adj.
[US] J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 35: When I’m [...] sacked in with some lovely French doll.
at doll, n.1
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