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Up the Junction choose

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[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 29: Sylvie was well away in the back row at the New Vic.
at well away, adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 16: You’re only young once – you can spend all yer time at evenin’ classes when yer an old bag.
at bag, n.1
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 119: Dick explained the motor car business to Jeanie. ‘You can start with a lot of old bangers and make twenty or thirty quid on each one.’.
at banger, n.3
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 11: Aren’t they beauties? Aren’t they darlings?
at beauty, n.1
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 22: ‘Are yer going to wear yer pink pyjamas?’ ‘No, me birthday suit.’.
at birthday suit, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 83: Fat Lil hollered blue murder.
at blue murder, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 37: What d’you think I am? Some high-class brass?
at brass, n.2
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 3: The three of us climb onto the bikes [...] We burn up Tooting Bec and streak round a corner.
at burn (up), v.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 92: ‘Fancy a burn-up, Dave?’ They warmed the bikes up in the drive-in.
at burn(-up), n.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 33: Four months she was carrying on with her best mate’s old man.
at carry on, v.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 88: I’m in trouble, I hit a policeman – chinned him.
at chin, v.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 15: They reckon he was choppin’ it off with his last assistant.
at chop, v.2
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 58: They reckon he’s clapped-up to the eyeballs.
at clapped, adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 85: Don’t come it with Scummy Lil.
at come it, v.1
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 13: ‘Cor,’ says Rube, ‘what a stink.’.
at cor!, excl.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 105: He got a Dear John – a letter from his bird saying she didn’t want to know no more.
at Dear John, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 38: He’s had more girls than hot dinners, he has.
at have had more — than one has had hot dinners (v.) under dinner, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 20: She don’t really care. I’d do meself in!
at do in, v.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 83: ‘Drag’ they call that, you can get three years for it ...
at drag, n.1
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 108: ‘You cold, duck?’ he says. ‘Get under them covers.’.
at duck, n.1
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 14: Fatty, you’re nine stone three.
at fatty, n.1
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 88: I was drunk and I knocked a ferkin’ cripple off the line.
at ferk, v.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 120: Me mates are all fiddlers.
at fiddler, n.1
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 89: A road-floosie stood drinking, eyes rimmed dark and short shaggy hair.
at floozy, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 39: Anyone want any cheap underwear [...] French letters, boxing gloves?
at French letter, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 79: All right, old fruit?
at old fruit (n.) under fruit, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 120: If you had the price of a drink or a lodging for the night you’d always have the drink and fuck the lodging – sleep in the cab.
at fuck, v.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 2: Bet they’re all married, dirty ginks!
at gink, n.1
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 3: I wouldn’t mind goin’ with a married man ’cept I couldn’t abear him goin’ home and gettin’ into bed with his wife.
at go with, v.
[UK] N. Dunn Up the Junction 3: ‘Hitch yer skirt up under yer coat.’ ‘Help, me grandmother’ll catch cold!’.
at grandmother, n.
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