Video Lesson - Dance With A Stranger (1985)
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Language Notes:
wishful thinking
boarding school
school uniform
sloshed = drunk
to knick/pinch
active = to steal, passive = to be arrested
He pinched a car
He was/got pinched for stealing a car
half inched = pinched = stolen (Cockney rhyming slang)
Money related: to cost a fortune, to be strapped for cash, to cough up, stingy
to chuck something in = to give it up
to get sacked/get the sack = lose your job
to treat someone like dirt
to beat the living daylights out of someone
"I shan't have any peace until we're married."
n.b. the use of shan't (shall not) instead of will not.
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