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  • By sparty, January 14, 2010 @ 11: 12 pm blimy - good luck mate. well another reason to be thankful i live in a dark rainy country ….

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo. 2010

  • Christian Social Ethics, blimy whats that, strangely I dreamt the other night I was taking these exams again, in my dream I had to work all morning and was in a rush to make to the exam in time.

    A Quick Update. Fathorse 2008

  • You know as well as I do that in these zeppelin raids the hardest thing the military authorities can do is to keep the people back in their homes; they want to go out and see the blimy things.

    Three Years of Germany's War on the United States 1917

  • 'That bloke -- blimy --' e ought to be doin 'the star part at Drury Lane'; and he wiped his hot hands on his trousers and fell again to beating them together, palms and fingers curved cunningly, to obtain a maximum of noise from the effort.

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • Andyr, blimy has my life expectancy changed that much in 8 years then? no one explained that to me when i joined or i probably would have stuck with my old job and been £8000 per year better off and lived longer.

    Evening Standard - Home Nicholas Cecil 2011

  • Junior officers have to bond with the troops and it means you treading a fine line between appearing like a limp wristed poofta, or having your NCO tell you to leave off the ‘cor blimy guvnor’ as you’re spreading it too thick.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Poor Harry 2009

  • 'e,' but blimy, I 'ad to plunk seven Germans before I could get a pair

    Tom Slade on a Transport Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • 'Ere 's Joe been knockin' ye down an 'knockin' ye down, an 'you comin' up smilin 'for more an' gettin 'it --' ere's Joe been a-poundin 'of ye all over the ring, yet you can finish strong an' speedy enough to put Joe down -- blimy, Guv, you're a wonder an 'no error! "

    The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Well, never say die -- strike me blimy but there's a good day coming -- "

    Fortitude Hugh Walpole 1912

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