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Sappers and Miners choose

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[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 219: But lor’ a mussy, I was all in such a flurry over the business I don’t half recollect.
at lor-a-massy/-mussy!, excl.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 90: Well, if you young gents can’t tell a good slumper, I’m a Dutchman.
at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 248: ‘He’ll have to run dot and go one, I suppose, sir?’ ‘What, lame?’ cried Gwyn.
at dot and go one, v.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 128: Not you; been bantering all the time. They didn’t mean it, and you didn’t mean it.
at banter, v.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 41: I never hated anyone that I know of, but I do hate him now. He’s a beast.
at beast, n.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 142: What an obstinate old block you were, Ydoll.
at block, n.1
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 120: Bother the dog, what a row he’s making!
at bother, v.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 261: I have heard say that he swore he’d have that dog’s life; but I’m sure it was all bounce.
at bounce, n.1
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 311: Why, because they’ve chucked me over, sir.
at chuck over (v.) under chuck, v.2
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 262: Well, he needn’t have been quite so chuff with a man […].
at chuff, adj.2
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 129: If they’ve told you a crammer at some time, [...] you don’t feel disposed to believe them again.
at crammer, n.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 47: What, you idle young dog! Do you expect to pass all your life fishing, bathing, and bird’s-nesting here?
at dog, n.2
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 173: Hardock, you’re fagged out, and had better stay.
at fagged (out), adj.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 137: Oh, I say, Jolly-wet, what a foggy old chap you are.
at foggy, adj.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 179: To think of it, for such a mine to have lain untouched ever since the time of our great-great-gaffers.
at gaffer, n.1
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 128: Not a bit of it. It’s all gammon.
at gammon, n.2
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 157: ‘I get five-and-twenty shilling a week for working here, not for going to chuck away my life.’ ‘Gahn!’ shouted a man. ‘Your life aren’t worth more nor no one else’s. Who are you?’.
at go on!, excl.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 210: ‘Oh, hang the dog!’ cried Gwyn, desperately.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 20: Well, I’ll be hanged!
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 170: I regularly got the horrors on me, for I was all alone.
at horrors, the, n.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 160: I didn’t want to fight [...] but I could have knocked that fellow Harry Vores into the middle of next week if I’d liked.
at knock into the middle of next week (v.) under knock into, v.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 130: ‘Come to knock up an accident of some kind!’ said the man, with the grin on his face expanding.
at knock up, v.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 100: I’m not larking. I can’t stir.
at lark, v.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 123: Of course, a chap gets his monkey up a bit when it comes to a fight.
at get one’s monkey up (v.) under monkey, n.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 41: I seem to see young Jollivet there going head first over the cliff; and the mortal shiver it did send through me was something as I never felt afore.
at mortal, adj.1
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 190: Oh, I say, what a plucked ’un you are, Joey.
at plucked ’un (n.) under pluck, n.1
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 182: If we don’t come back, you send a fresh shift, and let ’em bring us some prog and some blankets.
at prog, n.1
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 64: Ho! You’re precious cunning. But never you mind, my young sharpshooter.
at sharpshooter, n.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 38: Nice pair o’ soft-roed ’uns you two are! Why, you aren’t got no more muscle than a pair o’ jelly-fishes.
at soft-roed (adj.) under soft, adj.
[UK] G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 27: ‘Yah! stuff!’ growled Hardock.
at stuff!, excl.
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