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The Book of Aussie Bull choose

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[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 15: [A] type of mongrel so-and-so he hadn’t met before.
at so-and-so, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 13: [T]he same young couple sit close together in passionate embrace on the lounge while the pendulum of a cheap Japanese clock urges - ‘Get-at-her, Get-at-her, Get-at-her!’ .
at get at, v.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 7: In every job there are those who ‘wouldn’t work in an iron lung’, the ‘whingers’, the ‘practical jokers’, the ‘quiet achievers’, and the ‘eager beavers’.
at eager beaver, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 14: The ‘better half’ or ‘little woman’ [...] usually gets ‘in the family way’ after Nature has run its course.
at better half, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 41: Some years back, the Educational ‘boffins’ decided that kids should ask, ‘why?’ .
at boffin, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 23: ‘Brewery Droop’, where the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, and one’s love life suffers accordingly.
at brewer’s droop (n.) under brewer’s..., n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 11: Beware of the idiot whose advice at the bucks’ party before the wedding is - ‘On the honeymoon, mate, eat plenty of eggs and honey’ .
at buck party (n.) under buck, n.1
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 25: Buggered if I know.
at buggered, adj.1
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull x: Some timid and unnecessarily polite people refer to it rather gently as ‘Bullsh’ or ‘Bull Dust’.
at bulldust, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull x: Some timid and unnecessarily polite people refer to it rather gently as ‘Bullsh’ or ‘Bull Dust’.
at bullsh, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 30: [M]ates accused me of ‘Bullshitting’.
at bullshit, v.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 54: Two dogs were ‘coupled’ on the footpath and the wife started smashing the ‘bully’ on top with her handbag.
at bully, n.3
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 14: I’d probably be one of the poor unlucky buggers who ended up with an ‘ugly camel’.
at camel, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 18: I will not go into the argument of whether women are ‘catty’ [...] towards members of their own ‘you know what’.
at catty (adj.) under cat, n.1
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 34: [T]he two ‘ladies’ [...] were down on the road having a terrific ‘cat fight’ after smashing into each other.
at cat fight (n.) under cat, n.1
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 23: Some alcoholics will drink almost anything - even ‘Northern Territory Champagne’ (Metho and Sal Vital).
at Northern Territory champagne, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 14: The fact of life is, that the ‘chick’ you marry soon turns ‘clucky’ and you start getting ‘hen pecked’.
at clucky, adj.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull ix: Yanks talk ‘crap’ all the time.
at crap, n.1
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 27: His first delivery, I didn’t even see! The next one got me right in the ‘dice’.
at dice, n.3
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 23: [H]e produced an old push-bike and doubled me down to the pub.
at double, v.3
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 28: [A] ‘duffed’ seven iron [...] where the ball tears along the ground, runs through the bunker and stops four centimetres [...] from the hole.
at duff, v.1
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 23: [T]he Pom staggered down to the beach, flopped on his back beside his wife and ‘flaked’.
at flake (out), v.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull x: [A] doddering old fowl.
at fowl, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 33: Not so the noble little woman - she got fair up ’im.
at get up, v.1
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 10: [H]e’d be going with four or five at the same time.
at go with, v.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 7: Some are experts at pretending to work hard - always carrying a folder, frowning and looking busy, or pacing themselves with the regulation ‘council stroke’.
at government stroke (n.) under government, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 43: [M]ost of the dear, little ‘Greeblies’ at school these days all wear digital (‘Mickey Mouse’ variety) watches.
at greebly, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 9: When [...] a well built young girl walked past, he would nudge me and remark, ‘Nice young heifer there boy, eh!’ .
at heifer, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 32: I detest the ‘hoons’ (the tyre screechers and show-offs).
at hoon, n.
[Aus] B. Robinson Aussie Bull 33: She told me that it should be an object lesson to me not to be a ‘spineless jellyfish’ and in future to ‘stand up for my rights!’ .
at jellyfish, n.
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