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Lone Hand (Sydney) July 301/2: ‘Go ahead. Give me your plan. But don’t pile on the agony’.at agony, n.
Lone Hand (Sydney) July 301/2: ‘Go ahead. Give me your plan. But don’t pile on the agony’. Lone Hand (Sydney) July 339/2: ‘Me aunt!,’ ejaculated Robson.at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
Lone Hand (Sydney) June li: [advert] A Citizen of the Commonnwealth is a ‘back number’ politically and financially [...] if he doesn’t regularly read ‘the bulletin’.at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
Lone Hand (Sydney) July 233/1: ‘It was the Divil of a night, but, bedad! itis a jewel of a day’.at bedad!, excl.
Lone Hand (Sydney) June 154/2: ‘None o’ yer blamed new-fangled names fut me’.at blame, adj.
Lone Hand (Sydney) Aug. 439/2: If the flat is disinclined, sharp No. 3, the ‘bonnet’ or ‘buttoner’ [...] steps forward and picks the pea.at bonnet, n.2
Lone Hand (Sydney) July 273/2: ‘It’s some bricky wants pa.’ ‘He’s no bricky’.at brickie, n.
Lone Hand (Sydney) Nov. 57/1: The ‘broad player’ of the racecourse, assisted by sundry ‘G’s’ (i.e., accomplices), works the game on lines that pan out all his favour.at broad-player (n.) under broads, n.
Lone Hand (Sydney) Aug. 457/1: ‘I’m a journalist, and if this is the first-chop newspaper I take it for that ought to be enough’.at first chop, adj.
Lone Hand (Sydney) July 276/2: At the end of the sixth week, and within ten days of the cut-out, the tucker-bill was down to a neat 13s.at cut-out, n.1
Lone Hand May 86: [of a bicycle race] Plugger Bill Martin’s opponents were ‘dead’ and [...] Plugger [...] made arragngements with the corrupted ones.at dead, adj.
Lone Hand May 13: ‘Women want such a deuce of a lot’.at deuce, n.2
Lone Hand (Sydney) June 183/2: His final plan was to oust the Government [...] and ‘dish’ the Third Party completely.at dish, v.
Lone Hand (Sydney) July 276/2: When Gottlieb informed the cook of his good fortune, Happy got quite huffy [...] ‘Do yer mean to sy you was agoin’ to charge me, Dutchy?’.at Dutchy, n.
Lone Hand (Sydney) Sept. 523/1: The report [...] may indeed have tended to diminish ‘fiz-gigging’ by calling public opprobrium to the evil.at fizgig, n.2
Lone Hand May 80: You’ll be amazed to find what drivel the Judge can talk, and listen to. [...] He loves ‘fluff’ off the Bench... [He] told my husband that if he had found a woman who could fluff smartlyhe would ask her to marry him...Yes, wouldn’t she be a lucky fluffer.at fluff, v.1
Lone Hand May 80: You’ll be amazed to find what drivel the Judge can talk, and listen to. Absolutely silly drivel. He loves ‘fluff’.at fluff, n.1
Lone Hand (Sydney) Nov. 57/2: When a ‘mug’ is caught, the —’G’s’ (who are got up to represent farmers, clerics, or any citizens commonly supposed to know little of cards) commence their manoeuvres.at gee, n.2
(ref. to 1795) Lone Hand (Sydney) Nov. 56/1: In 1795 the chief English racecourses [...] were infested with ‘Greeks’ (sharpers).at Greek, n.
Lone Hand (Sydney) June 182/2: ‘That’s not half a bad idea,‘ said Oxie.at not half, phr.
Lone Hand May 4: There are two attitudes in life to be avoided, the Watteau and the What-Ho. In the one niceness is carried to the point of pernicketyness; in the other robustness grows into vulgarity.at what ho!, excl.
Lone Hand May 61: Why had he had that third bottle? [...] The first thing that occurred to Ashley was that he had ‘the horrors,’ and that all was a phantasy of his brain.at horrors, the, n.
Lone Hand (Sydney) Sept. 534/2: Jimmy, who is a drefful temperate bloke, stipulated that there was to be no getting inky.at inky, adj.
Lone Hand (Sydney) Sept. 533/2: Certainly, there is a ‘jaggy’ atmosphere in all the white men’s quarters. Yet it is not so much the drinking you see, as the drinking you hear about.at jaggy (adj.) under jag, n.1
Lone Hand (Sydney) Sept. 524/2: A ‘Kathleen Mavourneen’ — i.e., the indeterminate sentence which ‘may be for years and may be for ever’.at kathleen mavourneen, n.
Lone Hand (Sydney) Oct. 633/1: He called to the ‘Lampy’ (the paid attendant at a gambling school in the sheds) for a new set of dice.at lampy, n.
Lone Hand (Sydney) Aug. 436/1: ‘A gold-field which licks Kalgoorlie, a diamond-field that will eclipse Kimberley’.at lick, v.1
Lone Hand (Sydney) Oct. 650/2: ‘He might a’ been a M?orilander by the way he picked up the game’.at M?oriland (n.) under M?ori, adj.
Lone Hand May 15: ‘I never had,’ the sailor swore, / ‘A Queen so mashed on my before!’.at mashed (on), adj.
Lone Hand (Sydney) Nov. 59/2: It is foolish to play for stakes with any stranger; to do so with the ‘monte-man’ type of stranger is plain lunacy.at monte-man (n.) under monte, n.1
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