an unboned chicken

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.

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

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.