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Canberra Times 17 Apr. 8/7: He wanted a word like that for the big stoush (the Great War).at Big Stoush, n.
Canberra Times 17 Apr. 8/7: He wanted a word like that for the big stoush (the Great War). Canberra Times 17 Apr. 8/7: He gave himself that inimitable and indescribable air [...] of being ‘it’.at it, n.1
Canberra Times 17 Apr. 8/7: The dinkum Aussie hates to uswe a word like ‘chum’ or ‘pal’. There is a suspicion of wowserism [...] there.at wowserism (n.) under wowser, n.1
Canberra Times (ACT) 18 Dec. 2/2: To the average boy who makes a billy cart, [...] the problems involving cubical contents or superficial areas of cylinders present no difficulties.at billy-cart, n.
Canberra Times 13 Dec. 3/1: [advert] DODGE TOURER, 1922 Model, rather old-timer, but has wonderful motor. [...] Will climb a hill like a rat up a rope.at like a rat up a drainpipe (adv.) under rat, n.1
Canberra Times 5 May 1/4: A police pimp named Lynch, who was responsible for the prosecution of Mrs. Wood at Concord, had framed many people.at police pimp (n.) under police, n.
Canberra Times (ACT) 13 Apr. 3: A rookery is a delightful addition to a garden in the country, but a spadgery in a city street is a very different proposition.at spadgery (n.) under spadger, n.
Canberra Times 28 May 3/3: The licensee had been ‘cockatooing’ [i.e. looking out for police] at the door.at cockatoo, v.
Canberra Times 25 Mar. 2/4: Mr. Bailey mentioned that he had received a letter from ‘Mum’ who had written from the farm at Snake Gully, and it indicated that the war would not last much longer.at snake gully (n.) under snake, n.1
Canberra Times 26 Oct. 3/5: Tickets may be obtained by ringing the Secretary, Phone Queanbeyan 321. A WHACKO NIGHT FOR ALL.at whacko, adj.2
Canberra Times 30 May 1/5: General Blamey, according to Kretschmer, was not afraid of anything, was gamer than Ned Kelly, and stayed in Greece to the death knock.at ...Ned Kelly under game as..., adj.
Canberra Times (ACT) 14 July 2/5: No sleep last night, and we all drenched to the skin, flogging up huge hills and fording rivers filled with crocs.at flog, v.
Canberra Times (ACT) 5 Dec. 5/3: Is that a fair offer to make to Billy the blackfellow, or to anyone else for that matter?at Billy the blackfellow, n.
Canberra Times 18 July 5/3: When Martini’s absence was discovered the other man, Gene Lovering, was asked where he was, and replied laconically, ‘He’s gone to Gowings’.at gone to Gowings (adj.) under gone, adj.1
Canberra Times (ACT) 25 Mar. 4/3: A clown who broke his neck during a ‘knockabout’ acrobatic act [etc.].at knockabout, adj.
Canberra Times (ACT) 10 Apr. 2/5: When police stopped the vehicle the defendant told him he was a ‘two-pot screamer,’ and had only two beers before driving the bus.at two-pot screamer (n.) under screamer, n.
Canberra Times 7 July 5/4: ‘Never drink stagger juice, smoke, or lose your sense of humour’ was the long-life recipe of Mr O’Malley.at stagger juice (n.) under stagger, n.2
Canberra Times 14 Ap. 3/4: [headline] POLICE ‘PIMPING’ NOW UNWELCOME.at police pimping (n.) under police, n.
Canberra Times (ACT) 20 Mar. 9/4: The quarantine provision in the' W.A. Native Welfare Act which prevents natives from crossing the 20th parallel of latitude from north to south. The provision is designed to check the spread of leprosy and the boundary is known as the ‘leper line’.at leper line, n.
Canberra Times (ACT) 13 June 13/4: Poston said he had been forced to report the trial ‘from the peanut gallery’ in the upper level of the court room.at peanut gallery (n.) under peanut, n.
Canberra Times 15 June 2/4: [headline] Milk Bar Cowboy Survey Points to Broken Homes.at milk bar cowboy, n.
Canberra Times (ACT) 14 Sept. 9/2: The Northern Territory people will greet the Queen and Prince Philip in ‘Darwin rig.’ This is the local formal dress of black trousers and shoes, white shirt and black tie.at Darwin rig, n.
Canberra Times (ACT) 20 Apr. 41/1: MOON BABY: Has been running swallow catching trials [...] and would only need to reproduce the form in a race to win.at swallow-catcher, n.
Canberra Times (ACT) 22 Jan. 2/1: [...] is the cheer-chasing policy relentlessly pursued by the Government of New South Wales.at chase cheers (v.) under chase, v.
Canberra Times (ACT) 16 Aug. 42: Moonee Valley 12.20 1st Ailsa H’Cap [...] 00 LITTLE RIPPER 4 G. Gibb.at ripper, n.1
Canberra Times (ACT) 15 Dec. 18/3: There was evidence that overgrazing and overstocking had occurred to the extent that some of the country had been ‘flogged’ - completely eaten out with no attempt at pasture conservation.at flog, v.
Canberra Times (ACT) 28 Apr. 3/4: Mr. Newbigging said that a maximum of 7/- a glass for ‘sevens’ would be charged in public bars in the Sydney metropolitan area.at seven, n.
Canberra Times 23 Mar. 5/8: Mr. Fraser had to sit ‘like cocky on the biscuit tin’ and watch other Members of Parliament vole on an issue which had already been determined.at like the cocky on the biscuit tin under cocky, n.2
Canberra Times (ACT) 1 Dec. 2/3: We had spent most of a 45-mile journey in the corridor of a Gosford train in order to avoid the ‘decibel-induced madness’ of sitting in a carriage where a young woman insisted on playing her ‘tranny’ at full blast.at tranny, n.
Canberra Times (ACT) 20 Aug. 9: A few days later the diary records that cigarettes were less promising material — ‘daggy fag-ends which we unrolled for the tobacco’.at daggy, adj.
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