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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 ...
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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, 六月 11»
