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[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 85: Double numbers, such as fifty-five, are called thus: ‘all the fives’.
at all the twos, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 10: Oh, ve-ry nice! Oh ve-ry apples and rice!
at apples and rice, adj.
[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 126: I reckon we oughter cop a cock-an’-’en ’tween us.
at cock and hen, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 10: One ’n’ ’leven-pence three-farden.
at one and elevenpence three farden, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 11: Yer whistle, yer balmy date! Yer whistle-an’-flute.
at whistle (and flute), n.
[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 99: Who was he but Tommy Atkins at Waterloo, at Rorke’s Drift, at Loos, at Dunkirk?
at Tommy Atkins, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival in DSUE (1984) .
at baby’s leg (n.) under baby, n.
[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 93: ’Cos me an’ ’im ’as ’ad a basin-full o’ this ’ere Lonely-Sojer caper.
at basinful, n.
[UK] M. Harrison 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
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 85: ‘Ten’ is [...] rarely ‘Cock and Hen’ or ‘Uncle Ben.’.
at Uncle Ben, n.1
[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 131: I’m too fly an old bird ter be caught wiv lime.
at old bird, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 50: I wz ’avin’ a dicky-bird wiv one er the stooards.
at dicky-bird, n.2
[UK] M. Harrison 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
[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison 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
[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 85: ‘Two’ is [...] ‘Buckle me’ or ‘buckle’.
at buckle my shoe, n.
[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison 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.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 40: You can always do with a grin in the Kate Carney.
at Kate Carney, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 53: I been in the Boer War (lad’s service) and the lars’ carve-up.
at carve-up, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 43: He asks the housewife a reasonably fair price for his oranges and ‘collies’.
at cauli, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 30: Ole Blanco ’adn’t got muck-all on his chalk-farms.
at chalk farm, n.3
[UK] M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 65: That bloke’s arskin’ fer a chop rahnd the ear’oles.
at chop, n.1
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