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Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers: The Fair Dinkum Oz Guide to the Racetrack choose

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[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 63: After what seemed like only half-a-hair-past-a-freckle The Scholar walked back into the bar.
at half-a-hair-past-a-freckle, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 134: ‘Better get into the kick again Oscar,’ said Uncle Ern with that little grin he used to flash like a cattledog in a sausage shop.
at like a cattledog in a sausage shop under like a..., phr.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 134: Everyone - bar Big Oscar - laughed heartily, chugalugged their beers, slammed their glasses back down on the bar and waited for Big Oscar to get ’em in again.
at chug-a-lug, v.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 215: [T]here were two ace jockeys who shared the Professor nickname - Higgins (who was also known as ‘Roy The Boy’) and Jack Thompson.
at ace, adj.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 308: ‘When they flew the lids he cannoned into half the field like a Walter Lindrum trick shot and then let out a few yelps before squatting down and giving his agates a lick’.
at agates, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 194: Choko McGruder mumbled something under his breath which you could bet you agates was not at all nice and turned and hurried off .
at bet one’s agates (v.) under agates, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 152: But the blowie turned out to be one of those aggro-type wax-nest hornets which took umbrage and cost him most of the sight in his right eye.
at aggro, adj.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 21: [O]wned by no other than ‘the ale-moll Constance Chaddick’.
at ale-moll (n.) under ale, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 91: ‘An aleck - or smart aleck - can be downright dangerous. One - they’re bigmouths. Two - they will shelf you or dob you in at the drop of a hat. And three - they’ve always got fairy floss for brains.’.
at alec, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 73: Here I am with the flashest charlie at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day and I go and blow it be being an idiot and an aleck.
at alec, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 91: ‘An aleck - or smart aleck - can be downright dangerous. One - they’re bigmouths. Two - they will shelf you or dob you in at the drop of a hat.
at smart aleck, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 268: But Nifty Nev Sellwood thought it was all over bar the shouting and eased up.
at all over bar the shouting, phr.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 100: Uncle Ern [...] invites the still wet and all but whiskerless youth over to his Five Dock 76th gay’n’hearty.
at gay and hearty, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 161: Gloaming sat right on Beauford’s hammer and bunged on the pressure just before the turn into the straight.
at hammer and tack, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 304: [E]veryone is rabbitting on like silly sheilas under hair dryers.
at rabbit (and pork), v.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 102: The night before a meeting he’d sling a local anklebiter a couple of quid.
at ankle-biter (n.) under ankle, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 120: Phar Lap was a real ugly duckling in his anklebiter days. In fact he was a gangly yearling with an oversize konk atop a broomstick neck and great knobbly knees.
at ankle-biter (n.) under ankle, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 62: The Scholar [...] did not fart-arse around and immediately enquired as to whether she could possibly see her way clear to attend the Cup with Big Oscar.
at fart-arse, v.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 198: ‘There’s no need to cattledog our ears, Mick. And you can cut out the fart-arse one-liners too’.
at fart-arsed, adj.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 298: As pure arsehole, sour luck would have it the giant nag and his young claimer have another horse on their outside.
at arsehole, adj.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 155: 173 smackers he’s just withdrawn from his jay-arthur-rank.
at J. Arthur (Rank), n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 331: This is the rare-as-rocking-horse-turds champion all-rounder.
at rare as rocking horse manure, as, phr.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 283: [M]y benefactor-mentor was as dinkum Oz as a Sargents pie with rich red Fountain sauce.
at Australian as a meat pie (adj.) under Australian, adj.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 268: It wasn’t one of Nifty’s sweetest rides, I can tell you that, baby.
at baby, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 152: Yet, despite [...] pitiless kicks and backhanders by contrary old Ma Fortune who so loathed him, it wasn’t until Leonard Quentin Blount reached his thirties that he was considered worthy of the title ‘Lennie The Loser’.
at back-hander, n.
[Aus] J. Tapp in J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers xii: [T]he kind of unbridled happiness you’ll get only on the faces of battling owners whose dreams have all just come true inside of the minute or so it took for their neddy to bring home the bacon.
at bring home the bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 109: In next to no time the lad had built his threepenny bank into £12.
at bank, n.1
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 278: So he decides to plonk the whole half-a-bar on the next.
at half a bar (n.) under bar, n.1
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers xxiv: When Broker’s Tip, with Hilton Cope up, knocked off Alrello with Black Oryz a battling third the two Gaming Squad constables didn’t join in the general Paddock excitement .
at battling (adj.) under battle, v.
[Aus] J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 155: As he tries to sidestep the trio of blotto biffers, a big black paddywagon skids into the kerb.
at biffer, n.1
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