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With Hooves of Brass 75: He moved slightly, blocking her view of the players. ‘Not up my alley!’ she said, harsh with annoyance.at up your alley! (excl.) under alley, n.1
With Hooves of Brass 75: He moved slightly, blocking her view of the players. ‘Not up my alley!’ she said, harsh with annoyance. With Hooves of Brass 113: One of those dames who got a kick out of stringing a bloke on.at string (along), v.
With Hooves of Brass 160: ‘All the same, it’s time to beat it for the sawdust heap, Missus’.at beat it, v.
With Hooves of Brass 81: ‘Just wait until they hear how we roped Preacher into playing poker!’ ‘And that snooty bint too!’ added Ziff.at bint, n.
With Hooves of Brass 79: Hell, why did Topper have to be bunked in with another bloke [...] if only he had a hut to himself [...] She had never been so bitchy itchy in her life before.at bitchy-itchy (adj.) under bitchy, adj.
With Hooves of Brass 49: [A]lthough she laughed at some of the cracks, all knew they could not hope to pump any bitchy gossip out of her.at bitchy, adj.
With Hooves of Brass 41: It wouldn’t do for her to make the approach. The big galah might be silly enough to blab about it around the mill, and do nothing.at blab, v.
With Hooves of Brass 81: It was like scrumming through her wardrobe in search of a frock to wear for a blind date.at blind date, n.
With Hooves of Brass 143: A couple of games for bob stakes would either see her cleaned out or get her out of the blue.at in the blue under blue, n.1
With Hooves of Brass 113: [S]he was just a teaser. One of those dames who got a kick out of stringing a bloke on, then yell blue murder if he tried to get a hand up her skirt.at blue murder, n.
With Hooves of Brass 143: A couple of games for bob stakes would either see her cleaned out or get her out of the blue.at bob, n.3
With Hooves of Brass 50: Grace caught an unmistakable whiff of Scotty’s bombo - a smell that seemed a concoction of boot-polish and methylated spirits.at bombo, n.1
With Hooves of Brass 112: But the big, stupid kite! Dithering and frigging about instead of nicking into the scrub with her and give [sic] her a shove in the bush.at shove in the bush (n.) under bush, n.1
With Hooves of Brass 117: ‘I could’ve stitched it on again. That’s more than any of you cack-handed bastards could do’.at cack-handed, adj.
With Hooves of Brass 59: [H]e had a thumb bandaged, but when Old Fred chipped him about it, Preacher [...] raised his eyes, as if to reply that probably even our Lord Jesus hit His thumb sometimes with a hammer.at chip, v.1
With Hooves of Brass 152: ‘It’s no use, Bombo matey!’ he panted. ‘I’m done...! Jesus! Me chips are in...!’.at pass in one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
With Hooves of Brass 27: [G]et caught doping racing dogs or the gee-gees, and Christ! you hit the head-lines! [ibid.] 178: ‘Well, Christ Almighty! I could ‘ave sworn I done it’.at Christ!, excl.
With Hooves of Brass 143: A couple of games for bob stakes would either see her cleaned out or get her out of the blue.at clean out, v.
With Hooves of Brass 21: [T]he day he had lost his pay as he squatted over the crap-pit dug in the far end of the sawdust heap.at crap-pit (n.) under crap, n.1
With Hooves of Brass 113: ‘[S]he’d lead you up a creek - and I don’t mean her own’.at up the creek (without a paddle) under creek, n.
With Hooves of Brass 87: ‘I suppose it’s the mischief in Eddie that gives Joey such a crush on him’.at crush, n.2
With Hooves of Brass 26: No doubt the dicks reckoned she was involved in it, since she was known to have been living with Jack when they picked him up.at dick, n.5
With Hooves of Brass 80: ‘Boy, did you get them two titties of her? Squatting there on the table like a couple of rabbits! [...] Christ, but I’d like to do her over!’.at do over, v.
With Hooves of Brass 180: ‘They can all doss in the dining-room tonight’.at doss, v.
With Hooves of Brass 72: A game of cards was one thing, but to be ear-bashed by Preacher just because he had lost wasn’t her idea of entertainment.at earbash, v.
With Hooves of Brass 111: ‘Believe it or not, Ziff is quite a good-looking bloke under that face-fungus’.at face fungus (n.) under face, n.
With Hooves of Brass 114: ‘One spark in that face scrub, and it would blaze up like a gum!’.at face scrub (n.) under face, n.
With Hooves of Brass 116: ‘All right. Don’t frig about. Get on with the job,’ he ordered roughly.at frig about (v.) under frig, v.
With Hooves of Brass 1124: ‘Well, Ziff - have you made up your mind about whipping that fungus off your face?’.at fungus, n.
With Hooves of Brass 10: ‘Well, stone the crows!’ he said softly. ‘Get the blonde hair-do - and the shape!’.at get, v.
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