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Death of a Barrow Boy choose

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[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 178: Well, ’e’d ’ad more’n a few when ’e left the Arms.
at have a few (v.) under few, a, n.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 53: Wakey-wakey! [...] Show a leg there! Rise and shine!
at show a leg!, excl.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 53: Wakey-wakey! [...] Show a leg there! Rise and shine!
at rise and shine!, excl.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 187: Oh, ’e’s laid up, duck. No, just one of ’is turns. Ooh, like a bear with a sore ’ead.
at bear, n.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 85: If he threw the term ‘bolshie’ about the Mess as if it had meaning – he was comic relief.
at bolshie, adj.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 17: Bugger me, I’m dying upwards!
at bugger me! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 70: You sticking to this caper?
at caper, n.2
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 158: Well, what’s on your mind? Choke up! Choke up, chicken!
at choke (up), v.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 40: ‘’Allo, cocker,’ said Hutchens.
at cocker, n.1
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 137: Charlie listened, and outside the crocus (‘barred from Harley Street for saving a Woman’s Honour’) shifted his broken shoes.
at crocus (metallorum), n.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 142: Export Only. Flawed. Let you ’ave it dead cheap.
at dead, adv.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 24: I’ll do you!
at do, v.1
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 149: An afternoon at Lords was not much in his line [...] the linen-frocked, the dog-collared and the panama-hatted.
at dog-collar (n.) under dog, n.2
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 62: That? ’S an elephant. Elephant with duck’s disease.
at duck’s disease (n.) under duck, n.1
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 140: What game yer think you’re playing. Scarper [...] Yeah. I’m telling yer. Fade.
at fade, v.2
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 64: ‘You look fed,’ said Beryl [...] Yes, June acknowledged, she was fed.
at fed up, adj.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 80: Oh, getting back into the groove!
at groove, n.2
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 62: He watched her sorting coppers with a doubtful grin. [...] ‘There, you’ll ’ave to take two farthings.’ ‘Two jam jars?’.
at jam jar, n.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 40: ‘Why, kid, oh kiddo!’ He punched the other’s arm.
at kiddo, n.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 143: ‘I don’t grumble. I enjoy life. Only this ain’t a bleeding life, it’s a ---’ ‘Language!’ She moved off, ‘Language!’.
at language!, excl.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 145: Taxi-loads of ’em. Fleets.
at loads of, n.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 58: Well, stap me!
at stap me!, excl.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 9: ‘Back on the old barrow?’ ‘Ah, nark that [...] Done working for a living.’.
at nark, v.2
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 29: You can keep your paws to yourself.
at paw, n.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 145: Poncing about all the times in a flash suit and binoculars.
at ponce about (v.) under ponce, v.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 140: What game yer think you’re playing? Scarper.
at scarper, v.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 11: Take a look at this load. Crockery! Ever see a shower like it!? Wouldn’t a give it to a orphans’ ’ome before the war.
at shower of shit (n.) under shower, n.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 9: Strewth! Return of the prodigal!
at ’strewth!, excl.
[UK] C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 53: Wakey-wakey! [...] Show a leg there! Rise and shine!
at wakey, wakey!, excl.
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