10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOD ALL»
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sod all in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
66, 1964 SOd-all noun nothing, not a thing UK. i9ss • But here they are and
there's sod all I can do with them.— Ted Lewis, Jack Carter's Law, p. 1 1 3, 1 974
• Basically she does sod-all, won't lift a finger to help[.]— Jenny Eclair,
Camberwell ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Cf. arse about, bugger about, fuck about. sod all. Nothing: orig. mostly RN, since
ca. 1920; by 1950 at latest, gen. low. Var. of bugger all, damn all, fuck all. sod-
buster. An agricultural (not a pastoral) farmer: Can. (and US): C.20. Claiborne
adds ...
... us also club soda) atype of fizzy (= with bubbles) water, often mixed with
alcoholic drinks Ksod Lall noun [S] ukoffensivenothing: Ann'sjustbeenchat- ting
on the phone all morning - she's done sod all. Lsoda Ksiphon noun [C] a bottle
for filling ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
1917–. G. H. JOHNSTON 'The Middle East was a soda beside this,' one of them
told me (1943). [Perh. from the earlier sense, the deal card in the game of faro.]
sod-all noun and adjective Nothing, no. 1958–. K. AMIS There's been sod-all
since ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Development of Improved Turf-type Bermudagrasses
Pearson's correlation coefficient for the relationship between mean sod tensile
strength of a cultivar and the age of sod (d) at harvest was r=-0.31, p=0.18, N=20,
revealing sod tensile strength was not well correlated with the age of sod. All sod
...
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The Knitter: A Fictionalised Memoir
Sod 'em all, The long and the short and the tall, Sod all the sergeants and WO
ones, Sod all the corporals and their bastard sons, For we're saying goodbye to
them all, As back to their billets they crawl, You'll get no promotion This side of
the ...
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Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items
McCloskey ( 1 993 ) observes that the English^unt all construction can only occur
in positions where it can be reconstructed to VP-intemal position, e.g. subjects in
passives, ergative subjects, etc. (i) I know sod all about connectionism (ii) There ...
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The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore
When a passerby's foot struck the sod, all the surroundings became unfamiliar.
Trapped this way, a traveler could wander for hours, growing ever weaker and
more exhausted, until the mischief-making fairy put everything right again. stream
...
What he did was to kind of lay out the darn stuff sort of checkerboard style, with
these squares of sod all laid out by hand with about twenty—four inches between
each square. Then, he kind of filled the open areas in with some pretty well ...
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Free-Radical-Induced DNA Damage and Its Repair: A Chemical ...
There are three types of SOD. All SODs have transition metal ions in their
reaction center, and the enzymes in both high and low oxidation states react
readily (k ~ 2 x 109 dm3 mol"1 s"1; Klug et al. 1972; Fielden et al. 1974; Pick et al.
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOD ALL»
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Overturned sod truck shuts down I-75 North exit to I-16 in Macon
The 1998 Peterbilt tractor-trailer hit the guard rail at the Interstate 16 exit ramp about 1:30 a.m. and overturned, dumping sod all over the highway, according to a ... «Macon Telegraph, Jun 15»
Watson and Doctor Who team up in Labour's first party political …
I could tell you that the Tories have got sod all to offer the young whereas Labour will invest in the next generation's education and guarantee – that word again ... «New Statesman, Mar 15»
Jeremy Clarkson: 'People in Liverpool earn less, die quicker and …
... a stir up north after claiming people from Liverpool "earn less, die more quickly, have fewer jobs and live in houses that are worth the square root of sod all". «Mirror.co.uk, Feb 15»
Microsoft Surface Pro launch: It's easy to sell out of sod all stock
Microsoft's Surface Pro went on sale on Saturday, but stockists almost immediately ran into shortages, provoking anger and frustration among potential fondlers. «Register, Feb 13»
BBC host: NZ offers 'sod all'
New Zealand has "sod all", except for earthquakes, says a Sheffield radio host who slagged off the Land of the Long White Cloud after mistaking an Australian ... «New Zealand Herald, Jan 12»
