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[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 277: Sorry about the aggro I was giving you earlier.
at aggro, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 83: Everyone’s saying ‘Get me so-and-so, get me this, get me that’.
at so-and-so, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 247: The silly bollocks has knocked Jacqui’s handbag off the desk.
at ballocks, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 247: Now there’s bums and bazoombas tumbling around on top of everything else.
at bazoombas, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 248: She’s across the desk, with this massive pair of bing-bongs dangling over the typewriter.
at bing-bongs, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 118: Even Jacqui’s blast at Tina and Donna’s done a bit of good.
at blast, n.1
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 82: It’s Jacqui blowing her top. Jacqui’s having a great go about something.
at blow one’s top, v.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 232: I’m having a brill time.
at brill, adj.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 74: I’ll give you a buzz some time.
at give someone a buzz (v.) under buzz, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 108: Put all her whatsits down the karzy?
at carsey, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 18: Want to know who’s for the chop in the Beeb?
at give someone the chop (v.) under chop, n.1
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 61: Cor, Terry, that was a quick slash!
at cor!, excl.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 197: ‘Dash’ and ‘damn’ [...] And even worse things.
at dash!, excl.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 66: ‘Don’t worry,’ I whisper in her ear. ‘I got a doings’.
at doings, n.1
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 247: So him and Shireen dive after Jacqui’s doodads.
at doodad, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 114: One unused how’s-your-father still tucked away at the back of my wallet.
at how’s-yer-father, n.1
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 246: Got this picture out of his bag, so I know he wants to give me a flash of it.
at flash, n.1
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 83: She’s really giving the boys what for.
at give someone what-for (v.) under what-for, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 101: I know you and she slightly got across each other in the restaurant.
at get across (v.) under get, v.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 58: She’s breaking them up into little pieces. Really knocking hell out of them.
at knock (the) hell of out (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 71: Sometimes I got the push, but most of the time it was me that jumped.
at jump, v.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 147: You nick stuff! [...] If you got your hands on something like this, you’d knock it off fast enough!
at knock off, v.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 120: Jacqui’s gazing at me – she knows this is the real McCoy.
at real McCoy, the, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 85: Look at him, the daft monkey!
at monkey, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 152: She gave us a right slagging-off last night.
at slagging (n.) under slag (off), v.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 180: And OK, forget that, too, if you like.
at OK!, excl.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 71: Sometimes I got the push.
at push, n.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 4: Couple of fellows come one day last week and repo’ed the copier.
at repo, v.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 47: ‘OK, change of plan,’ I tell them. ‘Scrub the cats.’.
at scrub, v.
[UK] M. Frayn Now You Know 61: ‘Had to see a man about a dog,’ I tell her.
at see a man about a dog (v.) under see, v.
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