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The Long and the Short and the Tall choose

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[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: Do you think I give a twopenny damn about his life?
at not give a tuppenny damn, v.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: We’ve got two thousand Jocks up in the jungle suffering from the screaming ab-dabs.
at screaming abdabs (n.) under abdabs, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: He’s knocking about with this girl who’s a sort of nurse in a military hospital.
at knock about, v.1
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: Are you looking for trouble, bamforth? Because if you are, you can have it, and no messing.
at no messing (about) under mess about, v.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: bamforth: Tuesdays and Wednesdays he’s going steady with an Eisteddfod. / smith: Come again?
at come again!, excl.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: I’ve got a little skin and blister back in Blighty. Twelve years old.
at skin-and-blister, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: Fred Karno’s mob. That’s what you are, Fred Karno’s mob.
at Fred Karno’s army, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: He’s after you. Chases you round from haircut to breakfast time.
at from arsehole to breakfast (time) under arsehole, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: There’s no more buckshees for the Nippo, Bamforth.
at baksheesh, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: whitaker: Right, Sarge. Don’t think it’s going to do much good. mitchem: Keep bashing.
at bash on (v.) under bash, v.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: They know we’re round about here somewhere. Why else would they be bashing out the patter on the set?
at bash out (v.) under bash, v.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: We’ll have to belt it like the clappers out of hell. We can’t afford to hang about.
at belt, v.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: What do you think, you ignorant burk?
at berk, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: One of them bints in a long black hat and bits of lace.
at bint, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: And you lot want to string the fives on Tojo just because he’s got a Blighty fag case.
at Blighty, adj.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: I could have flogged it for a fortune back in Blighty.
at Blighty, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: The congregation will rise and sing the hymn that’s hanging up behind the door of the bog.
at bog, n.1
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: And so you pull the big brave hero bull [...] Aren’t you the boy?
at boy, the, n.2
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: Johnno’s got it in for you, boyo.
at boyo, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: What’s she like? Bramah, eh?
at brama, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: The third day’s hump we’re on – three days out and bright boy’s sweating on a kit inspection!
at bright boy (n.) under bright, adj.3
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: And you lot want to string the fives on Tojo just because he’s got a Blighty fag case.
at string the fives on (v.) under bunch of fives, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: I’ve told you – I don’t go a bundle on this death and glory stuff.
at go a bundle on (v.) under bundle, n.1
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: Haven’t any of you got the guts to go the bundle?
at go the bundle (v.) under bundle, n.1
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: Have a butcher’s at the corset ads on the last page.
at have a butcher’s (at) (v.) under butcher’s hook, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: You know what Blighty is these days, do you? It’s a carve up, son. A rotten carve up.
at carve-up, n.
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act II: Then, one day, this poor Charlie winds up with a bird.
at charlie, n.2
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: Nippo snappers, Sarge. Two Jap kids. Couple of chicos.
at chico, n.1
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: I’m going to grab a weekend off, and chuff the expense.
at chuff, v.1
[UK] W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: If he’d have pulled the pins on one of them grenades we’d all of us been up the shoot!
at up the chute under chute, n.
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