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Reported Safe Arrival 25: I’ll come back, [...] as sure’s there’s a nose on me deuce-an’-ace!at deuce and ace, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 25: I’ll come back, [...] as sure’s there’s a nose on me deuce-an’-ace! Reported Safe Arrival 85: Double numbers, such as fifty-five, are called thus: ‘all the fives’.at all the twos, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 10: Oh, ve-ry nice! Oh ve-ry apples and rice!at apples and rice, adj.
Reported Safe Arrival 31: Ole Smudhe didn’ give a muck abaht no black-faced savidges arter a bull-an’-cow wiv the old gel.at bull and cow, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 126: I reckon we oughter cop a cock-an’-’en ’tween us.at cock and hen, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 10: One ’n’ ’leven-pence three-farden.at one and elevenpence three farden, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 11: Yer whistle, yer balmy date! Yer whistle-an’-flute.at whistle (and flute), n.
Reported Safe Arrival 11: He indicated the three gunners with a nod of his head. ‘When them blokes begins ter warm up, there’s goin’ ter be a bit of pen-an’-ink in ere.’.at pen (and ink), n.
Reported Safe Arrival 110: W’y! they don’t even take yer eatin’-irons. I kep’ me ole drummond-an’-roce.at drummond and roce, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 99: Who was he but Tommy Atkins at Waterloo, at Rorke’s Drift, at Loos, at Dunkirk?at Tommy Atkins, n.
Reported Safe Arrival in DSUE (1984) .at baby’s leg (n.) under baby, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 131: Ah well! we’d only ’a bashed in all the lolly to-night, ef we’d gone ashore.at bash, v.
Reported Safe Arrival 93: ’Cos me an’ ’im ’as ’ad a basin-full o’ this ’ere Lonely-Sojer caper.at basinful, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 46: Arsked that ’ound of a Flight-Sarnt if ’e could slip ashore an’ say good-bye to ’is ole woman. An’ the barsket never let ’im.at basket, n.2
Reported Safe Arrival 85: ‘Ten’ is [...] rarely ‘Cock and Hen’ or ‘Uncle Ben.’.at Uncle Ben, n.1
Reported Safe Arrival 126: We oughter clean up big on this caper [...] Be all right to touch der a flim apiece, eh?at big, adv.
Reported Safe Arrival 131: I’m too fly an old bird ter be caught wiv lime.at old bird, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 50: I wz ’avin’ a dicky-bird wiv one er the stooards.at dicky-bird, n.2
Reported Safe Arrival 85: Twenty and all multiples of ten, except ninety, are always prefixed with the word ‘Blind.’ Thus: ‘Blind Forty’.at blind, adj.2
Reported Safe Arrival 107: One had only to see this filthy tide to realize that to eat the bum-boat-men’s fruit [...] was to walk in the valley of the shadow of death.at bum-boat, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 62: ’Ow they ’as the brass ter dish all that bull ter the ole Sky-Artist beats me!at brass, n.1
Reported Safe Arrival 43: ‘Oi, Brum. Do yow wanna go whome?’ ‘Yow Cockney get!’ the Brum boys would answer. [...] The Brum Boys had to concede the title of a superior flyness to Penny and the other Cockneys.at Brum, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 85: ‘Two’ is [...] ‘Buckle me’ or ‘buckle’.at buckle my shoe, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 25: You ’as a last butcher’s at the ole place.at have a butcher’s (at) (v.) under butcher’s hook, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 10: Harry was a Jew. In his own phrase: a ‘tin-lid.’ Otherwise, a ‘four-by-two,’ a ‘Kangaroo,’ or a ‘five-to-two’.at four by two, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 40: You can always do with a grin in the Kate Carney.at Kate Carney, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 53: I been in the Boer War (lad’s service) and the lars’ carve-up.at carve-up, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 43: He asks the housewife a reasonably fair price for his oranges and ‘collies’.at cauli, n.
Reported Safe Arrival 30: Ole Blanco ’adn’t got muck-all on his chalk-farms.at chalk farm, n.3
Reported Safe Arrival 65: That bloke’s arskin’ fer a chop rahnd the ear’oles.at chop, n.1
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