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[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 325: The saveloy was served with a mixture of fried potato and cabbage known as ‘bubble-and-squeak’.
at bubble and squeak, n.1
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 117: ‘Have a drink!’ [...] ‘Well ... I hardly know. I seem to be double-banked already.’.
at double-bank, v.
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 301: Good hand-out, usually. No bible-punching.
at bible-puncher (n.) under bible, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 338: Thank God [...] you thought of asking me about my book before I blewed the lot.
at blew, v.2
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 28: She’s the brains of that outfit.
at brain, n.1
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 27: The de Launes hadn’t a tosser between them. Oh my Lord, what a carve up!
at carve-up, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 298: He had given up relying on the arduous collecting of ‘dogs’ (as the ends are called), from public highways.
at dog (end) (n.) under dog, n.2
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 300: He lacks the courage to ask ‘on the downright,’ as plain straightforward demanding is called.
at downright, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 300: The selling of matches, curiously enough, is called ‘fiddling’.
at fiddling, n.2
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 213: I’d have lost my soul frigging about in an office.
at frig about (v.) under frig, v.
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 105: I can’t go on the Labour, cause I ’aven’t been stood off. I’m on’y ill [OED].
at labour, the, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 254: That’s the first thing I learn in any language. That, and how to spend a penny.
at spend a penny (v.) under penny, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 327: Christ! [...] isn’t there ever going to be anything but polonies; morning, noon and bloody night?
at polony, n.1
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 327: It isn’t you, Holy Jesus, that I’m rorting at.
at rort, v.2
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 28: Oh! she put the scissors on ’em all right!
at put the screw(s) on (v.) under screw, n.1
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 300: He understood well enough, why the cocoa which Jim sold at a penny a cup, was called ‘shell-shock’.
at shell shock, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 23: Well, Merrion, how’s tricks? How’s the squire?
at squire, n.
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 335: Listen, you blackmailing little tick.
at tick, n.2
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 287: The printing I’ve had done on tick.
at on tick under tick, n.3
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 327: It isn’t you, Holy Jesus, that I’m rorting at. But honestly, this sort of tommy just gets on my teats.
at get on someone’s tits (v.) under tit, n.2
[UK] M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus 27: Christ, the de Launes hadn’t a tosser between them.
at tosser, n.2
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