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(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 128: Geneva [...] is a city of hot air and hypocrites.at hot air, n.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 128: Geneva [...] is a city of hot air and hypocrites. (con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 147: So all is up with the Major!at all up with under all up, adj.
(con. 1940s) 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
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 110: That’s no reason to get in a bate.at bait, n.2
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 107: You’ll get a basinful of it here, all right.at basinful, n.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 155: The Mayfair is small beer compared with some of the others.at small beer, n.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 114: Come on, I’ll show you around quickly and then we’ll beetle off.at beetle, v.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 406: What’s biting the old man?at bite, v.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 151: God help ye, y’ blithering lot o’ helpless bastards!at blithering, adj.
(con. 1940s) 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
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 179: I don’t think it matters a bugger whether they work as coolies.at bugger, n.3
(con. 1940s) 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
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 424: It’s one of the RAF buses!at bus, n.2
(con. 1940s) 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
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 116: A Eurasian [...] You can tell them by their chi-chi accent.at chee-chee, adj.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 87: I’m thinking of chucking him.at chuck, v.2
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 562: Hop it. You too, cobber.at cobber, n.2
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 108: How deuced odd they all are!at deuced, adv.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 488: Singapore’s done for.at done for, adj.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 262: We can have the ‘Dutch wife’ between us.at Dutch wife (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 117: Nobody wants their kids to end up with that accent ... no fear!at no fear!, excl.
(con. 1940s) 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
(con. 1940s) 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
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 105: Oh lumme, it’s him.at lumme!, excl.
(con. 1940s) 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.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 168: ‘Big ah blests number one!’ remarked a smartly dressed young Chinese.at number one, n.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 179: They produce this piss-awful rubber but that’s their business.at piss-awful (adj.) under piss-, pfx
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 152: I heard that, y’ pissin’ old goat.at pissing, adj.
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 98: Yes, she’s a real Blackett. She has pluck.at pluck, n.1
(con. 1940s) Singapore Grip 117: You’ve seen the set-up.at set-up, n.1
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