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[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 98: Tommy Atkins [...] enjoyed giving Fritz ‘a little bit of all right.’.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 5: Don’t forget to myke the lads think you’re an out-an’-outer, if you understand my meaning – a Britisher.
at out-and-outer, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 61: The lineal descendants of the line Atkins, men whose grandfathers had fought in the Crimea.
at atkins, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 184: ‘W’ere you caught it, mate?’ ‘In me bloomin’ shoulder.’.
at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 117: Tyke yer field-glasses an’ watch me clip the next one.
at clip, v.1
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 73: They rush into the trap, and when it filled with strugglling men [...] ‘You got ’em cold.’.
at have someone cold (v.) under cold, adv.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 69: Don’t try to come it, son.
at come it, v.1
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 116: However it [i.e. a sniper hide] wasn’t such a ‘dusty little coop,’ and he had a good field of fire.
at coop, n.1
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 71: ‘Trench pets,’ said Shorty. Then he told me that they were not all greybacks.
at grayback, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 23: ‘I’m a-go’n’ to grease off out o’ this mob!’ [...] We felt we would all like to ‘grease off’.
at grease (off) (v.) under grease, v.1
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 81: Wooden bunks to sleep in, batmen to bring ’em ’ot water fer shavin’ [...] Blimy, I wonder wot they calls livin’ ’igh?
at live high (v.) under high, adj.1
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 197: I’ll tyke me charnces down below w’en I gets knocked out.
at knock out, v.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 6: Gor blimy, ’Arry, ’ow’s the missus?
at missis, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 108: Wot’s the use a-witin’ ’ere / Like a lot o’ bloomin’ mud-larks / For old Fritzie to appear?
at mudlark, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 80: If there were any men slated for the Order of the Wooden Cross, the bombers were those unfortunate men.
at order of the wooden cross (n.) under order of…, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 62: Never get up for a squint at Fritz with a fag on.
at on, adv.1
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 23: Ain’t we a ’andsome lot o’ pozzie wallopers? [...] We ain’t never a-go’n’ to see service!
at pozzie walloper (n.) under possie, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 108: They never takes a pot at us / Exceptin’ on the sly.
at take a pot at (v.) under pot, n.3
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 98: Gooten morgen, you Proosian sausage-wallopers!
at sausage walloper (n.) under sausage, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 59: Blimey, son!
at son, n.1
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 69: I pronounced the name [i.e. Ypres] French fashion which put me under suspicion as a ‘swanker.’.
at swanker, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 13: I’ll bet a tanner you’re a Yank.
at tanner, n.
[UK] J.N. Hall Kitchener’s Mob 197: ’Ell won’t be such a dusty old place if all the Christians go upstairs.
at upstairs, n.
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