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How to Kiss a Crocodile and other ‘Snappy Stories’ choose

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[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 13: The story came from the manager of the Safari Lodge, Ray Alright, after a comforting, belly-warming, port or three in the early AM.
at a.m., n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile : .
at a.m., n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 95: ‘McEnroe’s my idol. He’s got so much aggro in him!’.
at aggro, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 22: All a hungry croc had to do was slowly open wide and they’d end up straight in its mouth. Snap - all over red rover!
at all over red rover, phr.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 127: The giant fast bowler was desperate for a ‘you ’n me’ - legs crossed, arms crossed and maybe even his fingers crossed.
at you and me, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 101: A couple of coffees later I was all about like a tin of worms. Couldn’t wait to board the plane.
at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 82: Nevertheless we found ourselves, uncomfortably sitting in the back seat of this old banger, not knowing where we were being taken.
at banger, n.3
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 114: ‘You can bet your boots next door they’ll be in there saying their prayers and crossing themselves’.
at bet one’s boots (v.) under bet, v.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 99: [T]hey broke into a teasing banter again and began discussing their other halves.
at better half, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 98: ‘We collected two big ones (I think they meant thousands) after the first hour’.
at big one, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 110: Amongst the athletes, the Hawaiian Ironman is recognised as the big daddy of them all - the World Championship.
at big daddy, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 49: That gem of Walker logic blitzed him!
at blitz, v.2
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 65: Reality of a brisk Peruvian morning was jumping into the back seat of a local cab - a rust-bucket that used to be a beetlebug (Volkswagen).
at bug, n.4
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 17: [T]he other bunch of fives supported my friend’s soft, white ‘handbag’ underbelly.
at bunch of fives, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 37: [A]ctually Neil had buzzed him away from us because he was too close to the back swing.
at buzz, v.3
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 92: ‘Wow, what a buzz! I used to watch you when you played football for the might Demons’.
at buzz, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 81: No explanation, just a sheepish grin and another comfort stop to complete the cancer stick.
at cancer stick (n.) under cancer, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 99: I guess the floor of the cockie’s cage, which is what their mouths must have been like, was pretty awful after the night’s events.
at floor of the cocky’s cage (n.) under cocky, n.2
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 140: What would the game be without the cherry, the cod, the golden kookaburra, or in plain English - the cricket ball?.
at cods, n.1
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 23: Despite their cranking me up, I was beginning to get quite interested and excited at the prospect.
at crank someone up (v.) under crank, v.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 32: ‘Wide World of Sports’ was doing a profile of the hard-nosed croweater who hates Victorians with a rare passion.
at crow, n.2
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 67: Chester was a dead ringer for Friar Tuck, with a horseshoe head of greying hair.
at dead ringer, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 120: [of a cricket pitch] Next morning before the toss of the coin, the deck looked like a highly polished dance floor.
at deck, n.1
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 65: Cramped wasn’t the word for it - ‘we were in love’, in the back seat of a ‘vee-dub’ in Cuzco.
at vee-dub, n.1
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 103: A very windy journey across the tarmac, hair vertical, climb aboard the vibrating egg beater, up into the air.
at eggbeater (n.) under egg, n.1
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 122: ‘We called him ‘Black Freddo’...because, like several of his team mates, he was not half past eleven, he was most definitely MIDNIGHT.
at half past eleven, adj.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 89: I turned the key in the door and flaked as soon as I put my head down.
at flake (out), v.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 14: Anyway, there were no flies on my mate Will.
at no flies on..., phr.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 120: They were hanging out of the freedom stands (trees beyond the ground), sitting in the palms, perched on corrugated iron roofs and atop the containing walls.
at freedom stand, n.
[Aus] M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 27: Gee, there was a lot of lair in them too! They are very quick to show off what they’re made of.
at gee!, excl.
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