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Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 266: Most of them wore expressions varying from the ‘don’t care a damn’ to the grim and determined.at don’t-give-a-damn (adj.) under not give a damn, v.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 266: Most of them wore expressions varying from the ‘don’t care a damn’ to the grim and determined. Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 228: They were the aces of Bomber Command.at ace, n.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 60: In the City stock prices were on the up and up.at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 20: He was slightly more split-arse than Hoppy, and flying to him was nothing unless it was dangerous.at split-arse, adj.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 118: The barons [...] had begun to threaten the glamour boys that they would de-bag every one of them.at de-bag, v.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 245: At the same time your air-speed’s got to be bang on.at bang on (adj.) under bang, adv.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 203: We went on to the Jap war: how the little yellow bellies themselves had been halted.at yellow belly, n.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 82: I think he’s put up a black, anyway.at put up a black (v.) under black, n.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 36: No such luck. She hummed along like a sewing machine, blast her.at blast, v.1
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 168: Why the blazes [...] didn’t they put a large force on the factory the first night.at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 205: The scientists had not been idle. ‘Boffins’, we call them, why I don’t know.at boffin, n.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 193: The Pathfinder Force had boobed.at boob, v.2
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 28: We had waited so long that we were all completely brassed off.at brassed off, adj.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 83: Oh, they’ve had a pretty tough break all right.at break, n.1
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 55: As I was not airborne my wheels hit the hedge and we very nearly went for a burton.at go for a Burton (v.) under Burton, n.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 209: With this technique at last buttoned up.at buttoned up, adj.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 39: After running up the unenviable score of 2 certs., 4 probables and many damaged, he was finally posted elsewhere.at cert, n.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 282: He got the chop.at get the chop (v.) under chop, n.1
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 163: ‘God! you’re a clot,’ he said disrespectfully.at clot, n.1
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 125: The darned thing conked out with about six miles to go on the way home.at conk (out), v.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 143: He was going like a dingbat for Southampton at about 6,000 feet.at go like a dingbat (v.) under dingbat, n.2
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 175: He showed how to ‘ditch’ the aircraft, using slight flap and plenty of speed. The ‘drink’ we used for the occasion was a stretch of smooth cloud.at ditch, v.2
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 200: Despite the fact that Lancasters from our Group were the only ones capable of ‘doing’ Italy, we flew [...] no fewer than 1,336 sorties.at do, v.2
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 20: I was a bit frightened in case he hit the drink. [Ibid.] 255: At that height you would only have to hiccough and you would be in the drink.at drink, n.1
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 199: We had been trying to prevent the Itie fleet from interfering.at Eyetie, adj.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 200: Yes, the Ities are getting absolute hell.at Eyetie, n.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 144: Both combats [...] were not organized as they should be, but complete flukes.at fluke, n.2
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 262: Look here, Guy, I’m awfully sorry, Nigger’s had it; he has just been run over by a car.at have had it, v.
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 38: What a ham effort!at ham, adj.1
Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 200: Yes, the Ities are getting absolute hell.at get hell (v.) under hell, n.
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