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Odd People in Odd Places 2: Don’t say it to me. It sets my back up, and when my back’s set up I’m sometimes orkard.at get someone’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
Odd People in Odd Places 2: Don’t say it to me. It sets my back up, and when my back’s set up I’m sometimes orkard. Odd People in Odd Places 68: The instrumental ‘blue boys’ belonging to several metropolitan divisions.at blue boy, n.2
Odd People in Odd Places 58: Two villanous-looking ‘bruisers’ [...] of the very lowest of the ‘rough’ type – broken-nosed, besotted, pimple-visaged, and unwholesome-looking fellows, whose foul and blasphemous language seemed to pollute the pestilent air of the place.at bruiser, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 7: ‘They said it was his hurts as killed him,’ said the old lady [...] ‘It was the bricks and mortar that did his business, poor chap.’.at do someone’s business (v.) under business, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 231: ‘I’d take it as comfortable as going to bed,’ says my friend, ‘if there was occasion,’ ‘Then here goes to make you comfortable, you confounded Mother Carey’s chicken,’ says the second mate, turning all of a sudden fierce on him.at Mother Carey’s chickens, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 93: With such arguments the bargain is driven to a conclulsion, and the grateful ‘coaley’ takes his departure with two pounds ten in his pocket.at coalie, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 244: That was the crammer I told him.at crammer, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 38: Besides these articles there was a pair of what had once been white linen cuffs, a ‘dickey’ of the same dubious complexion, and a white tie.at dicky, n.1
Odd People in Odd Places 199: Spirits and water was the favourite drink – ‘fours’ of gin or whisky.at four, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 61: You keep it going pretty loud here, with a couple of policemen foxing about just outside.at fox, v.2
Odd People in Odd Places 135: We had nothing but crusts and cold taters for dinner on Christmas day, which was the gammon my old lady pitched ’em.at gammon, n.2
Odd People in Odd Places 219: All of them employed at different manufactories of ‘germans,’ ‘collared head,’ and ‘spiced beef’, chiefly for supply shops.at German, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 37: I thought, to be sure, I was going off the hooks, and it was no use talking about it.at off the hooks under hook, n.1
Odd People in Odd Places 55: A regler turn-in, I mean, with sheets and that?at turn-in, n.1
Odd People in Odd Places 59: ‘Let me play you a tune, then.’ [...] ‘All right, then. Play us something juicy.’.at juicy, adj.
Odd People in Odd Places 160: They’d tell me that there were plenty of sober men about, and that they couldn’t trust a ‘lushington’.at Lushington, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 18: A mouthpiece [...] is another word for a defending counsel .at mouthpiece, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 135: We had nothing but crusts and cold taters for dinner on Christmas day, which was the gammon my old lady pitched ’em.at pitch, v.
Odd People in Odd Places 12: Your five bob and another eighteen pence, and I’m squared for a start on my hook.at square, adj.
Odd People in Odd Places 165: The love o’ liquor had got that tight hold of me [...] I’d give up trying to break away from it [...] ever since my wife died, and she could never break away from it when she once got tackled fast to it.at tackle, v.
Odd People in Odd Places 168: The [...] bag in which the ‘tombstones’ or pawn-tickets were deposited.at tombstone, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 6: It had been arranged [...] she should ‘sleep on the turf,’ that is to say, with no other shelter than the little arched hovel of canvas. [...] She was in high spirits, probably on account of the immediate prospect of ‘turfing it.’.at turf it (v.) under turf, v.
Odd People in Odd Places 161: They tried it once or twice with me till they found what an incorrigible wagabone I was.at vagabond, n.
Odd People in Odd Places 176: They should probably get ‘a whacking lot’ for their money.at whacking, adj.
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