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Fatty: The Strife and Times of Paul Vautin choose

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[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 55: ‘After about 20 minutes Max Krillich got king-hit after he played the ball and it was all in.’.
at all in, adj.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 154: As Folkes was carried from the field the laconic Jack Gibson remarked: [...] ‘Gillmeister’s mugged him. That was a back alley job, that one.’.
at back-alley job (n.) under back alley, n.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 136: There was [...] the perception of Bob Fulton’s ‘monkey’. The monkey on Fulton’s back was reference to him coaching two sides to grand finals, only to come away empty-handed each time.
at monkey on one’s back, n.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 105: ‘Bozo was a shocking bagger. He’d give everyone a hard time, but it was done in fun’.
at bagger, n.3
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 228: ‘It was one of the great bagging sessions’.
at bagging, n.4
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 90: That sort of stuff never really got to me, I never needed any special psych-up but Boydy and some of the guys in the team would go bananas.
at go bananas (v.) under bananas, adj.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 15: ‘There I was, 900 people watching, and my shorts and undies down around my ankles and my little jelly bean sticking out for all to see’.
at jelly bean, n.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 40: Fred had no time for airs and graces. The blow-waves and beefcake calendars of rugby league 1990s-style are certainly not his go.
at beefcake (n.) under beef, n.1
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 89: It had cost them big in terms of both money and public expectation.
at big, adv.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 41: Tradition would dictate it [Vautin’s nickname] should have been Bluey, or Bloodnut or Ginger, but Fred Jones had never been a traditionalist.
at bloodnut (n.) under blood, n.1
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 304: ‘I heard there were about half a dozen blokes who were laughing along, but they were probably boofhead Queenslanders like him’.
at boofhead, n.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 27: [T]he boys had been sitting around [...] shooting the breeze talking about footy and lying about women.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 195: ‘Umm, yeah, I know it’s crazy but this bloke I know in Briso...’.
at Briso, n.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 233: ‘I virtually agreed to terms but in the end they signed Rowdy and brushed me’.
at brush off, v.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 205: ‘The thing about Turvey is that he’s got this huge hooter. I can report that the sound issuing from the impressive bugle was definitely king-sized’.
at bugle, n.1
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 127: [I]f you told the ref the [penalty] count was one-sided he’d [...] try to even things up before the end of the game because it wouldn’t look good on his report to be seen caning one side.
at cane, v.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 307: ‘Someone should tell that bloke sideburns went out when Elvis carked it’.
at cark, v.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 293: Raper was carpeted by the Australian Rugby League and threatened with the sack.
at carpet, v.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 163: ‘I had to chip ’em a bit on that one’.
at chip, v.1
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 162: [W]hat the Sydney papers started calling ‘Factor X’. That indefinable something that Queensland teams seemed to have which lifted them when the chips were down.
at when the chips are down under chip, n.2
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 397: When Kerrod Walters, his brother Kevin and Allan Langer - all former Ipswich boys - combined to set up a try [...] Fatty cried out: ‘You can put that one down to Two Head City.
at Two-Head City, n.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 117: ‘[A]nd next night at training everyone would be giving Johnny Jones a hard time. Jonsey just copped it sweet... everyone did’.
at cop it sweet (v.) under cop it, v.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 114: ‘Paul, mate, dead set you were the best player on the field today by miles’.
at dead set, phr.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 116: ‘Nobody could ever accuse him [i.e. a rugby footballer] of not having a dig’.
at dig, n.1
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 124: ‘I was dirty on him,’ he said. ‘I blamed him for what had happened and I shouldn’t have’.
at dirty, adj.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 224: ‘Bullfrog loved those durries,’ Vautin said. ‘He always had a Camel hanging out of his north and south’.
at durry, n.
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 229: ‘Boze, you know me, I’ll do it on my ear’.
at on one’s ear under ear, n.1
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 148: [E]ach afternoon the players would sit around reading the pre-match hype-fest out loud’.
at -fest, sfx
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 102: ‘We knew then we had a real game on our hands but we just didn’t fire on the day’.
at fire, v.2
[Aus] M. Coleman Fatty 206: [T]his was my first Test, I was really fired up and I thought, ‘I’m going to go on with this [...] I’m going to give it everything I’ve got’.
at fired up, adj.
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