1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere 100: She’s dead off blokes who do a bear-up with girls.at bear-up, n.
1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere 202: A reckless beer boozer and bearer-up of tough tarts.at bear-up, n.
1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere 87: ‘Polly Tanner’s the bonzerest girl I ever met.’‘Absolutely,’ confirmed Waldo. ‘Not only a bonzer girl for untying us, but a bonzer girl herself.’‘And a bonzer looking girl,’ added Waldo. ‘Bonzerest looking girl in town,’ chanted Bill.at bonzer, adj.
1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere 47: Aw, cripes, you just bull up and make a date with them to come for a walk some night.at bull up (v.) under bull, v.1
1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere 209: ‘But cripes, I’m a pretty onkus mug on the stage. Cripes, I’d make a mull of it’.at onkus, adj.
1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere 84: He took a pull at it, adding, ‘A bit onkus, but drinkable. Have a swig’.at onkus, adj.
1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere 106: ‘By cripes, you got a hide, reckoning I ought to miss passing that bloke one because you’re struck on Polly Tanner’.at pass (someone) one (v.) under pass, v.
1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere 50: He got some return on it as an investment by lending it out to blokes at a thrummer a time.at thrums, n.