He became a submariner in 1936 and passed his "perisher" course in 1941. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
"The little perisher just plain didn't think of it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere] Reference
Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher? '. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Then he most times went in an awful perisher — took a month to it, and was never sober day or night the whole time. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery Under Arms] Reference
"Well, if this ain't the rummest go, I'm a perisher!". From Wordnik.com. [The Definite Object A Romance of New York] Reference
"A man where, you ruddy perisher?" he grunted savagely. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
We're goin 'to track the perisher to' is 'orrible doom. From Wordnik.com. [The Definite Object A Romance of New York] Reference
"I've waited 'alf an 'our for the perisher, too, without no breakfast.". From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
Original pure English phrase signifying the perisher has run out of beer. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
Then he most times went in an awful perisher -- took a month to it, and was never sober day or night the whole time. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields] Reference
"I said a piggy-back -- oh, you blightin 'perisher, I said a piggy-back," he snarled, his resplendent shoes twinkling in futile kicks. From Wordnik.com. [The Definite Object A Romance of New York] Reference
"So much the better, ye blighted perisher!" snarled the Old Un, "an 'don't forget as the Guv owes you thirty dollars a'ready -- an' 'arves, mind.". From Wordnik.com. [The Definite Object A Romance of New York] Reference
'as come a-visitin' -- Joe, put me down, you perisher. From Wordnik.com. [The Definite Object A Romance of New York] Reference
Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher? ". From Wordnik.com. [Wodehouse on Islam4UK] Reference
Always merry and bright, as the perisher said in the play. ". From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
"The glass up there, you flat-faced perisher -- hidden in the stones. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
In that there perisher Smithson's dug-out, and 'e can' ave it for his dinner. ". From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
Ma'am, pore Joe means well, but 'e can't' elp bein 'a perisher -- but "-- and here the Old. From Wordnik.com. [The Definite Object A Romance of New York] Reference
“That’s all right as far as it goes, but what sort of a perisher,” Syce surprisingly observed, “took the bearings?. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
"I mean, you made a grand mistake in letting that little perisher Xuriel sell those tables of his 'Under Royal patronage,' and. From Wordnik.com. [In Brief Authority] Reference
He must do “a perisher.”. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Did you ever see such a perfect perisher. From Wordnik.com. [Boris, Wodehouse and Polly] Reference
We caught the perisher. From Wordnik.com. [War and the Weird] Reference
“Old perisher!” he said. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Fire, son, fire -- an 'hit the perisher. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
Cos we was proud of the little perisher!. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant in the House] Reference
He always was a blackguard -- a perisher!. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Faces A Mystery] Reference
Artist in his way, Jas. is, the old perisher. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
'eart, ma'am, a black, base-'earted perisher is Joe -- so no jam for Joe, ma'am, an' only one slice o 'cake. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Definite Object A Romance of New York] Reference
Young perisher. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
He must do "a perisher.". From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Did the perisher say that? ". From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
I’ve told the old perisher!. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
"There's a perisher fell in the 'ole, sir!. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
It'll give the perisher something to do. ". From Wordnik.com. [Simon Called Peter] Reference
Wot do I care about the perisher along of you? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
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