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[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 17: ‘Robbie Burns. Drunk as a fiddler’s bitch’ .
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 16: ‘I seen one fellow in Jerusalem, wait, I’m telling a lie, it was in Alex, when I went there for a bit of leave[.]’ .
at Alex, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger (2000) 99: ‘Banchoad!’ The final insult. The Bengali’s launched punch sent the glasses and bottles flying.
at banchoot, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 26: ‘Christ,’ he said. ‘The bloody guts-ache’ .
at gut-ache (n.) under gut, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 23: ‘Don’t act daft. You know what I mean. You’ve been hitting it again’ .
at hit it, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 19: The mems slept in adjoining beds, their dreams oppressed by servants who remained impassive in the face of hard words and feigned not to understand kitchen-Malay made up of Midland vowels.
at mem, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 159: ‘No,’ said Boothby, ‘don’t take a pew. Remain standing.’ .
at take a pew (v.) under pew, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 77: ‘Oh well, one for the road then.’ ‘Push the boat out, Adams,’ said Hart. ‘Stengah for me.’ .
at push the boat out (v.) under push, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 24: ‘[T]hey picked you up half-slewed in a shop in Sungai Kajar’.
at half-slewed (adj.) under slewed, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 93: Also there was the big public school tradition of not sneaking.
at sneak, v.
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 72: The opium-eating sod sidled off, gurgling.
at sod, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 17: ‘That bloody Jock Keir with the money rattling in his pocket. Tack wallah’s joy-bells’ .
at tack-wallah (n.) under tack, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 13: ‘Christ, man, I wouldn’t touch him with a walking-stick. They’re talking, I tell you, about letting the side down.
at wouldn’t touch it with a (barge-)pole under touch, v.1
[UK] A. Burgess Time for a Tiger 60: [of a Malaysian] ‘These Wogs are hot-blooded’ .
at wog, n.1
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