Word: blimey
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...Marina Beach." He wired back: "This is impossible. I've never lost it." In the dark, German Mark IV tanks were confused with U.S.-made Shermans. "D'you know,'' a British soldier muttered, "I actually peed against one of those tanks, thinking it was British. Blimey...
...Terrence Alexander, Norman Bird)-all cashiered out, all out of cash. Guaranteed ?100,000 apiece, these amiable scalawags form an unregistered corporation called "Cooperative Removals, Ltd." From there out, the picture becomes simultaneously a sort of rollicking Rififi and a hilarious parody of the last skaty-eight milidramas from Blimey. The major organizes his gang as a commando, runs it by "Queen's Regs," soon whips together a unit that makes up in morale what it lacks in morality. "England," says the colonel proudly, "always supplies the right man for the job. Even if it's the wrong...
...London school playground, a little girl cried to a boy who had muffed her throw: "Cor blimey, you ain't 'arf a butterfmgers." The boy shouted amiably...
...Dunkirk (Ealing; M-G-M). Blimey! 'Ow could 'e do it? 'Ere's this bloke, see, this Mike Balcon-'e ain't no bloody amateur when there's a camera abaht. 'E did aowl' Alec's Lavender Hill Mob, an' with not much 'elp neither, financially so to speak, and they're sayin' 'e's brilliant, 'e's got it made. A ruddy, stained-glass genius, that's what they called 'im. 'E's no genius...
...always, belonged to the cockney, the costermonger and the gypsy, swarming over the infield. Red-faced north-country farmers and pale London clerks elbowed up to canvas stalls to buy jellied eels and winkles. Touts sidled up to them, peddling inside dope. Said one oldster dressed like a jockey: "Blimey, I wish my kids were 'ere. 'Cos if they were, I could put my 'and on their 'eads and swear that this information of mine is the real goods. Now look, ladies and gents, I want you to come back after the race just...