MOTS EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «NOT A DICKYBIRD»
not a dickybird
dickybird
cambridge
university
press
audio
pronunciation
more
nothing
chinese
traditional
from
longman
hear
news
about
someone
something
have
heard
them
since
they
moved
random
house
group
edition
little
sister
polly
discover
huge
colourful
parrot
their
kitchen
called
mister
macaw
amazon
books
shipping
qualifying
offers
collins
always
example
sentences
including
sigh
moan
situation
replicated
awed
silence
that
followed
times
sunday
younger
fiction
nicholas
trade
store
know
your
mobile
unwanted
gift
card
spend
things
word
haven
legend
related
words
australia
loquacious
very
bossy
bird
fisk
paperback
paperb
10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «NOT A DICKYBIRD»
Découvrez l'usage de
not a dickybird dans la sélection bibliographique suivante. Des livres en rapport avec
not a dickybird et de courts extraits de ceux-ci pour replacer dans son contexte son utilisation littéraire.
Tom and his little sister, Polly discover a huge, colourful parrot in their kitchen called Mister Macaw.
... Grandad'sgotadickyheart. dickybird /"dIk.i.b3;d/ /-b;d/ "noun [C] uk child's word
a small bird "idiom not a dickybird old-fashioned informal nothingat all: We haven'
t heard a dickybird from (= spoken to or received a letter from) Riza recently.
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Shorter Slang Dictionary
Late 19th–20th centuries.2in not a dickybird, nothing, as in 'Can yousee anything
?' 'Not adickybird.' Sincearound 1920orearlier. dida, dida,dida a mocking burden
to a longdrawnout explanation or complaint. didakai, diddicoy ordiddikoi see ...
Paul Beale, Eric Partridge, Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
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Just
a Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective
Next morning we could scarcely wait to get school over and come back to look at
the bike. We went round all day with our ears flapping to see if any of our pals
had heard rumours of some robbery at Wrenson's grocery shop. Not a dickybird.
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
d/ >-noun [C] uk child's word a small bird ▻ idiom not a dickybird old-fashioned
informal nothing at all: We haven 't heard a dickybird from (= spoken to or
received a letter from) Riza recently. dicky (bow) noun [C] uk informal for bow tie ...
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A Portrait of the Arsonist as
a Young Man
Not a dickybird. Probably thousands of miles away sipping a G&T on a Greek
island or has his feet up in his Greenwich Village apartment. I'm finally seeing
Alex for what he is. To see someone intheir true colours you have totakeoff ...
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The night manager : [
a novel]
Jonathan's good humor only added to his irritation. "Have you seen Apostoll
hanging around anywhere?" he demanded without so much as a hullo. "Bloody
little man's gone missing." "Not a dickybird," said Frisky. The furniture had been ...
"Not a dickybird." He smiled a weak smile. "Ed? You're not . . . I mean, has it
occurred to you that maybe you might possibly be. .. you see, .Iess thinks..." " I'm
gay?" She colored up and gave a weak nod. “Well, I'm not." "Brilliant," she said,
giving ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
... Dicky bird is rhyming slang for 'word'. 1988 Glenn PattersonBurning Your Own
Sammy put his ear to where he thought its heart ought to be: not a dickybird.
dictionary have swallowed a dictionary use long and obscure words dicky bird.
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Dead Serious:
A Superintendent Bone Mystery
Not a dickybird. It's only an impression I got Nigel often looked stoned — God
knows he drove as if he was. It's logical to think the kids had a strong ulterior
motive in putting up with him. Kat, my niece — and I quote her gracious words —
said ...
ACTUALITÉS CONTENANT LE TERME «NOT A DICKYBIRD»
Découvrez de quoi on parle dans les médias nationaux et internationaux et comment le terme
not a dickybird est employé dans le contexte des actualités suivantes.
Interview: Gordon Strachan, Scottish football veteran
That quip landed him in trouble at Celtic; when he used it twice previously in England there was "not a dickybird" of complaint. From the burds ... «Scotsman, juin 11»
