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The Irish Fandango choose

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[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘[Y]our evidence isn’t worth two knobs of goatshit’.
at not worth a pinch of..., phr.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] After a bit more argy-bargy about [...] the general principles involved.
at argy-bargy, n.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] They were happy as Larry.
at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] This was getting tricky. The old bat knew far more than he did.
at bat, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] Mollinson [i.e. a bookmaker] had [...] taken a bath. He had no readies.
at take a bath (v.) under bath, n.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘I copped billyo for even askin’ about it’.
at billy-o, n.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘Let’s cut the blarney, shall we?’.
at blarney, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘I can’t remember who owes who what between us, so I’m not gunna start bleating’.
at bleat, v.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘[Y]ou’ll find yourself in a spot of serious bother’.
at bother, n.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] [H]e built churches and schools and virtually anything with four walls that the local god-botherers required.
at God-botherer, n.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘Mate, it’s a breeze, you’ll piss it in’.
at breeze, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] The office workers had all bundied on by now.
at bundy on, v.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] This one missed very little [...] Best better her up.
at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘I’m sure I couldn’t say.’ She’d gone a bit cagey, but he kept at it anyway.
at cagey, adj.1
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] The old man was a chippie, ended up some big builder.
at chippie, n.3
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘[A]ll the lads had choofed of home’.
at choof off (v.) under choof, v.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘Some of them got the chop, I’ll bet’.
at get the chop (v.) under chop, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] This old clapped-out Austin.
at clapped(-out), adj.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘You seem pretty clued up on this’.
at clue up (v.) under clue, v.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] They had him cold and he wore it .
at have someone cold (v.) under cold, adv.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] Len was a right commo when it came down to it.
at commo, n.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] Jack had arrested him once for [...] possession of a firearm, but Benny had been connected enough to walk away.
at connected, adj.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘[B]y crikey, we can’t have all this bad publicity now, can we’.
at crikey!, excl.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] A few dagoes having a bit of a singsong.
at dago, n.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘[F]air dink [...] He went after a lost football at training last night and fell into Kedron Brook’.
at fair dinkum!, excl.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘[B]ooze for breakfast is the sure sign of a dipso’.
at dipso, n.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘You and ya dog-faced mate here were all over me’.
at dogface (n.) under dog, n.2
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] Vida had him in the doghouse.
at in the doghouse under doghouse, n.
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] Mrs C was a real dong-stretcher.
at dong, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘Not your bloody commo who went the drop again, is it?’.
at go the drop (v.) under drop, n.1
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