Green’s Dictionary of Slang
P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 147: You can be cool and cut the meeting short—can’t you? You’ll know how to choke him off.at choke off, v.
P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 83: Being in her best dress, and ‘got up to the nines,’ she was tonight in one of these optimistic moods.at up to the nines, phr.
P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 226: I needn’t have gone into all that palaver at all.at palaver, n.
P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 198: We haven’t got the car tonight. Old Gosling’s a bit sticky about it.at sticky, adj.1
P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 233: ‘She ended up by threatening to call a policeman.’ ‘A policeman!’ exclaimed George. [...] ‘Yes. That does sound a bit stiff, I must say.’.at stiff, adj.
P. Hamilton West Pier (1986) 238: Haven’t you heard the expression ‘my uncle’ – meaning a pawnbroker?at uncle, n.
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