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The Singapore Grip choose

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[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 128: Geneva [...] is a city of hot air and hypocrites.
at hot air, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 147: So all is up with the Major!
at all up with under all up, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 450: The civilians had created such a song and dance that the Governnment had insisted on abandoning the rest of the training.
at make a song and dance (about) (v.) under song and dance, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 110: That’s no reason to get in a bate.
at bait, n.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 107: You’ll get a basinful of it here, all right.
at basinful, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 155: The Mayfair is small beer compared with some of the others.
at small beer, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 114: Come on, I’ll show you around quickly and then we’ll beetle off.
at beetle, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 406: What’s biting the old man?
at bite, v.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 151: God help ye, y’ blithering lot o’ helpless bastards!
at blithering, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 86: These days unless you were a brass hat or a Minister nobody knew when you would arrive.
at brass hat (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 179: I don’t think it matters a bugger whether they work as coolies.
at bugger, n.3
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 164: I was in trouble and your dear father [...] gave me ‘a bunk up’ (please excuse my slang expression of speaking!).
at bunk up, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 424: It’s one of the RAF buses!
at bus, n.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 151: Run the bleedin’ hose out without a twist in it or ye’ll catch it hot, I’m tellin’ ye...
at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 116: A Eurasian [...] You can tell them by their chi-chi accent.
at chee-chee, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 87: I’m thinking of chucking him.
at chuck, v.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 562: Hop it. You too, cobber.
at cobber, n.2
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 108: How deuced odd they all are!
at deuced, adv.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 488: Singapore’s done for.
at done for, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 262: We can have the ‘Dutch wife’ between us.
at Dutch wife (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 117: Nobody wants their kids to end up with that accent ... no fear!
at no fear!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 505: A couple of elderly Englishmen who but for the war would long since have been put out to grass.
at put out to grass (v.) under grass, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 184: If you think you’ll get it from her [...] I’m afraid you’re barking up the wrong tree.
at it, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 105: Oh lumme, it’s him.
at lumme!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 423: Maybe I’ve been speaking out of turn, maybe I should have kept mum about it.
at keep mum (v.) under mum, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 168: ‘Big ah blests number one!’ remarked a smartly dressed young Chinese.
at number one, n.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 179: They produce this piss-awful rubber but that’s their business.
at piss-awful (adj.) under piss-, pfx
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 152: I heard that, y’ pissin’ old goat.
at pissing, adj.
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 98: Yes, she’s a real Blackett. She has pluck.
at pluck, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940s) J.G. Farrell Singapore Grip 117: You’ve seen the set-up.
at set-up, n.1
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