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(con. 1950s) Never a Normal Man 120: Ian, look who’s just come in, it’s old so and so (having forgotten his name).at so-and-so, n.
(con. 1950s) Never a Normal Man 120: Ian, look who’s just come in, it’s old so and so (having forgotten his name). Never a Normal Man 89: At my first monthly ‘short arm’ inspection [...] I dropped my trousers and rolled back my foreskin to reveal a quantity of dried-up semen.at short-arm inspection (n.) under short arm, n.
Never a Normal Man 33: The guests knocked back their cocktails.at knock back, v.
(con. 1960s) Never a Normal Man 271: At Christmas they send more than 300 cards to their mates who are banged up and if a member of the Firm goes inside, the Colonel [a nickname for Ronnie] sees their families are all right.at banged up, adj.2
Never a Normal Man 174: They were leaving town that evening in a beat-up car.at beat-up, adj.
(con. 1950s) Never a Normal Man 135: I’ll have you know that my behind has been much admired and much sought after.at behind, n.
(con. 1950s) Never a Normal Man 113: ‘Bejesus, you bore the hell out of me,’ he snarled.at bejazus!, excl.
Never a Normal Man 283: He launched himself on a three-day bender.at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
Never a Normal Man 125: One of my photographs of two cheerful sailors flirting with a drunken old biddy.at biddy, n.2
Never a Normal Man 309: It might be funnier to have him [...] singing butch cowboy numbers which got the bird.at get the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
Never a Normal Man 320: They [...] were eager to meet Peter’s Danish ‘bit’.at bit, n.1
Never a Normal Man 140: Kee behaved impeccably [...] but I blotted my copybook.at blot one’s copybook, v.
Never a Normal Man 270: I was friendly with [...] George Walker and his brother Billy, the ‘blond bombshell’.at bombshell, n.
Never a Normal Man 73: Meanwhile, I had another lucky break.at break, n.1
Never a Normal Man 311: Outrageous tarts, dark-skinned bruisers, drunks, tramps and me.at bruiser, n.
Never a Normal Man 161: I had a cup of tea in a nearby caff.at caf, n.
Never a Normal Man 94: He [...] was quick to notice the androgyny shared by many comedians from Chaplin to Sid Fields, not exactly ‘camp’ but dainty.at camp, adj.
(con. 1950s) Never a Normal Man 153: ‘Champers!’ cried Minton. ‘It’s madly good for you. Much better than brown or mild.’.at champers, n.
Never a Normal Man 138: Madame Langalan tried to monopolize Dali with her girlish chit-chat.at chitchat, n.1
Never a Normal Man 132: After three days he vanished. This was the clincher.at clincher, n.1
Never a Normal Man 105: An ageing ‘lush’ called Cora and Billy, a balding ‘queen’, who cruise the New York waterfront together.at cruise, v.
Never a Normal Man 57: My mother explained delicately that Mopsy had the ‘curse’.at curse, the, n.1
Never a Normal Man 161: It became plain that the ‘cushy’ job I had been offered meant that I was neither crew nor passenger.at cushy, adj.
Never a Normal Man 174: I walked up the hill with Teddy in his velvet collar and his hair carefully enticed into a D.A.at D.A., n.
(con. 1950s) Never a Normal Man 195: And so chic, a real little Danish pastry.at Danish pastry, n.
(con. 1950s) Never a Normal Man 177: They’d scrub their cabins for ’em and dhobi their things.at dhobi, v.
(con. 1916) Never a Normal Man 16: The rest of us went back and had the dickens of a tea off hired gold plate!at dickens, the, phr.
Never a Normal Man 170: Plucked eyebrows, the black mascara and the scarlet gown worn on special occasions, the only sign of the ‘drag’ deplored by the Australians in the train.at drag, n.1
(con. 1916) Never a Normal Man 15: By two-thirty we were all standing there dressed up to the nines in starched everything.at dressed (up) to the nines, phr.
(con. 1950s) Never a Normal Man 178: As we neared Australia the talking point was the ‘dropsy from the bloods’, the tips expected from the passengers.at dropsy, n.2
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