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The Godson choose

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[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 110: [H]is behind was going up and down like Yehudi Menuhin’s elbow.
at in and out like a fiddler’s elbow, phr.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 26: ‘I’ve never spoken to them, but it sticks out like dogs’ knackers what they’re up to’.
at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 62: ‘[W]e ain’t got time to be fucked around’.
at fuck about, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 115: ‘She was all over you like a cheap suit when I walked out the door’.
at all over, adj.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 94: [F]or a to-and-from he wasn’t chalky white and he was more wiry than skinny.
at to-and-from, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 273: He was left to keep an eye on the two anklebiters. But they weren’t bad little kids.
at ankle-biter (n.) under ankle, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 85: ‘Les,’ he almost stammered. ‘You can’t do this.’ [...] ‘Pigs arse I can’t,’ replied Norton.
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 188: ‘Jolly good shot.’ ‘Jolly good shot my arse!’ exclaimed Norton.
at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 184: ‘That was a ball-tearer you blokes put on last night.’ ‘You like that did you, Ronald?’ asked Peregrine. ‘It wasn’t a baddy’.
at baddie, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 134: She was a bag, anyway.
at bag, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 49: Seven hundred bananas a night.
at banana, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 130: ‘How are you mate?’ he said brightly. ‘Absolutely whizz bang, old boy’.
at whiz bang, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 22: ‘This is all supposed to a bit of a whizzo bash’.
at bash, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 62: ‘I’ll tell you what, old bean’.
at old bean (n.) under bean, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 56: [of a bar fight] ‘Bit of a beano that one, what?’.
at beano, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 23: ‘You must know someone who can look after this Beecham’s pill’.
at Beecham’s pill, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 375: [T]hree grand in his bin.
at bin, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 81: ‘[T]his whole blessed thing has been blown out of all proportion’.
at blessed, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 10: ‘[H]e just wants me to look after some young pommy bloke’.
at bloke, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 162: ‘You could be a ring-in. A lousy bloody commoner’.
at bloody, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 42: I offer him a trip up the North Coast to sit on his arse for two weeks in the sun [...] and he’s blowing up.
at blow up, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 22: ‘[H]e legs it rather than have his smother blown’.
at blown, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 257: [of greedy possums] ‘Couldn’t be any worse than these little bludgers’.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 131: He’d been given the complete and utter blurt [...] The dirty, poxy low moll.
at give someone the blurt (v.) under blurt, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 82: ‘[M]y friends and I get on quite well with the police — or the bobbies, as we call them’.
at bobby, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 325: ‘Change the plates. Bodgie up the rego’.
at bodgie, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 53: Bollinger Bolshie and airwaves bore Adam Pratt accosted him for an interview.
at bollinger bolshevik, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 127: [O]ut of the bra her boobs looked rounder and juicier than ever.
at boob, n.3
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 118: [I]t was time to get down and boogie.
at boogie, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Godson 53: boozy baronet butts black-clad bore howled the headline.
at boozy, adj.
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