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Bluey & Curley choose

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[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 22 Sept. [synd. cartoon strip] Look at him...as pleased as a dog with two tails.
at pleased as a dog with two cocks, phr.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 21 May [synd. cartoon strip] I’m already eight days A.W.L.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] Abdul, you orta be bloomin’ well shot — loading up the poor old donk like that!!
at Abdul, n.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 27 Oct. [synd. cartoon] Twenty ackers we heads ’em!
at acker, n.1
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 8 Aug. [synd. cartoon strip] Can’t yer [i.e. an intellectual] put it in dinki-di Aussie?
at Aussie, n.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 6 June [synd. cartoon strip] Did you notice the old brass hat with the red beak.
at beak, n.2
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 29 July [synd. cartoon strip] I had to belt all the mules all the time.
at belt, v.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 11 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] By cripes [...] th’ captain can cart his blanky life preservers ashore isself!!
at blanky, adj.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 5 Apr. [synd. cartoon strip] Blimey [...] I ain’t got [...] a bit of baccy on me!!
at blimey!, excl.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 10 July [synd. cartoon strip] Why don’t you take it [i.e. tough meat] back to the blinkin’ cook?
at blinking, adj.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 7 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] The first bloke to climb down a tree without first having to climb up it!
at bloke, n.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 6Oct. [synd. cartoon strip] Stop!! We’ve skittled a bloke!
at bloke, n.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 21 Feb. [synd. cartoon strip] I volunteered for the infantry [and] they make a bloomin’ lancer of me!!
at blooming, adj.1
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 30 May [synd. cartoon strip] History be blowed!!
at blowed, adj.1
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 6 June [synd. cartoon strip] Did you notice the old brass hat with the red beak.
at brass hat (n.) under brass, adj.1
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley [synd. cartoon strip] .
at brought down, adj.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 18 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] I’m just makin’ sure I didn’t get back the brummy two bob piece I started with.
at brummy, adj.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 21 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] We found the imaginary enemy had done a bunk!!
at do a/the bunk (v.) under bunk, n.1
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 11 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] By cripes [...] th’ captain can cart his blanky life preservers ashore isself!!
at cart, v.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 10 June [synd. cartoon strip] Tell his reverence there’s loop the loop, snags and mud balls, strike me dead, slip in the gutter and Chinese comfort fund. The cook said there’s soup, sausages and potatoes, bread and butter and rice.
at Chinese comfort fund (n.) under Chinese, adj.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 19 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] Took in. Me eye!! I didn’t come down in the last shower you know!!
at come down in the last shower (of rain) (v.) under come, v.1
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 17 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] You clumsy coots!
at coot, n.1
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 31 Oct. [synd. cartoon] Blimey wot’s wrong with old Snodger? They copped him tossing double-headers !
at cop, v.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 26 Feb. [synd. cartoon strip] Good night corp!! Sarge to you with them stripes!!
at corp, n.1
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 26 Apr. [synd. cartoon strip] You’ll cough that half quid....You cow.
at cough, v.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 2 Nov. [synd. cartoon] There’s that Queensland cove what won all our money.
at cove, n.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 22 Oct. [synd. cartoon] — Cripes I’m glad to see you, Sarge! — There’s no need to crawl.
at crawl, v.1
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 24 June [synd. cartoon strip] You should ’ave seen that Fritz go crook when I pinched his bloomin’ iron cross.
at crook, adj.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 14 Aug. [synd. cartoon strip] Flying or swimming? Whoopeeing — got crowned with a bottle.
at crown, v.
[Aus] A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 28 Feb. [synd. cartoon strip] Ajssie bomber pilots are just plain cuckoo [...] They lay their eggs in the other birds machine [sic] gun nests.
at cuckoo, adj.
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