‘I got somethin ta tell ya. Young Trilby's knicked off.’

an unboned chicken

Reading them was another; and when it came to taking thoughts in his head and writing them on to paper, he didn't have the first idea where to start.

I like to call 4-person interactions and relational systems 'quadrals' (845—846). Their potentially visible occurrence in encounter type groups probably varies widely, and is not often discriminated unless in groups literally composed of couples.