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The Right to an Answer choose

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[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 98: [of food] ‘This,’ said Imogen, ‘is a bit of all bloody right’.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 40: What’s for afters?
at afters, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 93: Cold turkey and bubble-and-squeak.
at bubble and squeak, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 113: They’ll be in all our houses [...] blackies of all colours.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 92: The two of you [...] blah-blah-blahing about the sanctity of this and the bloody inviolability of that.
at blah, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 44: Beryl had said she’d accompany them for a ‘bit of a blow’.
at blow, n.3
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 39: She said to me, "Well, broth [...] it’s ready’.
at broth, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 59: All right, if you don’t like it, bugger off.
at bugger off, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 122: It’s dangerous to move ’em when they’ve chucked a dummy.
at chuck a dummy (v.) under chuck, v.2
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 54: Pulling up outside an Expresso coffee-bar, ‘Oh God, no,’ said Imogen, ‘I’m not going to have any of that dish-wash’.
at dish-wash, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 67: They are far inferior to the lant-eyed beauties of the Orient.
at slant-eyed, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 69: I must fix him up [...] with some nice girl or other.
at fix up, v.1
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 102: They had showed signs (footy-foot, held hands [...]) of now asking nothing more in bed.
at footsie-footsie, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 48: His eyes were blindfolded by the strip-lighting caught in his goggles.
at goggles, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 129: ‘You gave it ’em in the goolies, did you?’ asked Ted. ‘Yes.’ Mr Raj smiled at the homely soldier’s word.
at goolie, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 250: I wouldn’t mind ’aving one of these two little Japs that you’ve got ’ere.
at Jap, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 110: You certainly speak English good for a native. Where did you get all them jaw-breakers?
at jawbreaker, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 171: Five nicker is five nicker, as he put it.
at nicker, n.2
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) n.p.: Pull the other leg, mister [...] it’s got bells on it.
at pull the other one (it’s got bells on) under pull, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 69: The men went out to pump ship.
at pump ship (v.) under pump, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 123: Charlie Whittier looked scooped and thwarted.
at scoop, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 106: The pistons working up quickly to the vinegar strokes.
at vinegar strokes (n.) under vinegar, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 93: Don’t be so bloody wet.
at wet, adj.1
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 86: Don’t talk so bloody wet, Billy.
at talk wet (v.) under wet, adv.
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 140: ‘I called out, “Turn the bloody wick up, Bertie.”.’ [...] ‘And did this gentleman do what you requested?’ ‘He was very fond of dipping it,’ said the vicar. ‘Ha ha’.
at dip one’s wick (v.) under wick, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 120: I wouldn’t drink with a Wog [...] not if it was the best champagne.
at wog, n.1
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