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The Good Girl Stripped Bare choose

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[Aus] q. in T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare (2017) 4: ‘I’m at the intersection of that yummy fur shop that’s having a clearance in peschaniki muffs and that darling boutique where car sixty-four picked up that positively dreamy hat.”’.
at dreamy, adj.
[Aus] q. in T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare (2017) 10: ‘Bloody water everywhere and I’m as dry as a dead dingo’s donger,’ Mack says. ‘Better get a beer’.
at dry as (a)... (adj.) under dry, adj.1
[Aus] q. in T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare(2017) 9: The last cigarette commercial in Australia is aired in 1976. It’s an homage to women, ‘from flapper to female liberation’.
at flapper, n.2
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 8: This is a Queensland expression, used in such circumstances. It’s up there with [...] ‘off like grandma’s pants on payday’.
at off like grandma’s pants on payday under off like a..., phr.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 179: I wish I’d torn him a new one.
at tear someone a new asshole, v.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 20: ‘Fuck a duck! I’m gunna lose me licence’.
at fuck a duck!, excl.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 82: I couldn’t give a flying fart about [...] a film by Russell Crowe.
at not care a fart, v.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 84: ‘Oh wow, that’d be ace,’ I say, like a sixteen-year-old cheerleader.
at ace, adj.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 78: Nine News stays at Number One for twenty-five years because of Sorell’s winning formula: T&A over A&A [i.e. AIDS and Aborigines,presumed too depressing].
at tits and ass, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 237: [He] is variously described as a ‘hard arse’, ‘big swinging dick’ and ‘macho bully’.
at hard-ass, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 92: Aunty Flo has missed her monthly appointment. ‘We’re so disappointed she hasn’t arrived. We were expecting her to bring hot scones, with jam and cream, along with the lining of my uterus’.
at Aunt Flo, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 204: Most women in our line of work are axed or sidelined once they have children.
at axe, v.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 59: Who in the House of Lords doesn’t indulge in sexual abuse? A dash of B&D, pip, pip, tally-ho!
at b & d, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 222: There’s no BS with these women. They’re honest as the day is long.
at b.s., n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 281: We women have each other’s backs.
at have someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 24: Why am I being punished? The manager’s the baddie in this morality tale.
at baddie, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 249: The audience is unaccustomed to tough-talking women on air. The default setting is to label them a ‘bitch’, ‘ball-tearer’ or ‘strident’.
at ball-tearer (n.) under balls, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 86: ‘You should do some stories for the program [...] Girls like you have got balls’.
at balls, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 169: The only people allowed near my beaver are Jason and Dr Bowman.
at beaver, n.1
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 216: Lisa, my bestie from uni.
at bestie, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 37: I want to be a slight, dark-haired woman of Eastern European ancestry, because it’s so much more sophisticated than being the bevan chick from Redcliffe.
at bevan chick (n.) under bevan, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 20: Our eyes meet. I give him the thumbs-up: bevan Bonnie to criminal Clyde. (‘Bevan’ is the Queensland version of ‘bogan’.
at bevan, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 83: Returning to the [TV] station with a bit of biffo from the protest.
at biffo, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 125: ‘I’m confident in our relationship. The name’s not a biggie’.
at biggie, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 5: Mum and Dad bought this tiny abode after a bomb went off near their flat in Normanby: bikies, I believe.
at bikie, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 173: I didn’t turn on the news tonight to see exposed flesh. Why don’t you women cover your arms? It is most undignified. (And this was before the bingo wings.).
at bingo wings, n.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 222: Mums’ clubs are criticised as chicks-sitting-around-bitching-about-their-blokes.
at bitch, v.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 117: After a year renting our ‘roach palace’ [...] Matt and I bite the bullet and buy a semi in Rozelle.
at bite the bullet (v.) under bite, v.
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 105: Her boss is a moustachioed menace, who often goes off his block.
at off one’s block (adj.) under block, n.1
[Aus] T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 216: ‘It’s not only mothers, or older women [...] It’s gay guys, like me. We only get so far in these blokey environments before we hit the pink ceiling’.
at blokey (adj.) under bloke, n.
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