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Turn it up! The World According to Fatty choose

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[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 70: Well when I say it was cool, it was actually cold enough to freeze the nuts off a fruit cake.
at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 110: We walked onto the racecourse like a pair of Wyatt Earps, cashed up and plenty of ammo.
at ammo, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 27: I’ve up and undered for about five minutes - the bad news was that I was in the pool at the time.
at up and under, v.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 204: Rabs declaring he’d get that so and so tomorrow.
at so-and-so, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 194: Then I felt it. A nudge, on the inside of my thigh, right next to my ‘how are you goings’.
at how are you goings, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 108: So if five noahs got trapped in that itsy bitsy net, then how many are out there along the other 20 miles of beaches?
at Noah’s (ark), n.1
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 136: Gonzo was as full as Warragamba Dam.
at full as..., adj.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 204: Rabbits sat there stewing that he’d been got at .
at get at, v.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 172: Well a backhander under the lughole soon quietened me down.
at back-hander, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 127: What really gets to me in these goodies versus baddies movies is just how useless the baddies are.
at baddie, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 198: Hewitt was apparently a ‘Dudley Dud Bash’ in between the sheets.
at Dudley Dud Bash (n.) under bash, n.1
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 124: I hit off and drove a beauty 230 metres down the middle.
at beauty, n.1
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 148: [A]fter watching The Jungle Book twice on video it was time for beddy-bys.
at beddy-bye, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 200: Great Britain’s only hope may be to resort to the biff.
at biff, n.1
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 126: [A]nniversary night and I’ve gone off. The sensational dinner, booked a swanky hotel and had a blinder.
at blinder, n.3
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 110: [W]orse still, Gibbsy’s get out bet at Ouyen trots blew a tyre when it was six metres in front and 80 meters to go and ran fifth.
at blow a tyre (v.) under blow, v.2
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 136: I was firming in the market, he was blowing out and when he’s about a hundred to one, he decides to play his party trick.
at blow out, v.1
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 120: We went, all the family, plus a blow-in from next door, another Matthew who is the same age as my Matt.
at blow-in, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 39: Poor little bludger, he wasn’t happy standing there on his Pat Malone.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 163: I found five of the bludgers [sc. funnel-web spiders] in there, including two in the skimmer box.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 114: I thought I’d have no trouble sneaking back before anyone saw me to wash the boof out.
at boof, n.3
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 62: At the Mater they call me ‘Boomerang’ Vautin.
at boomerang, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 111: Nuggy was a barber [...] he was 70, had Coke bottle glasses and Dad loved him.
at coke bottle glasses, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 87: [S]o I rode home on my brand new tricycle to find the rest of the family parked in front of the box.
at box, n.1
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 188: I keep telling her not to eat all that roughage for brekky; prunes, bran, and baked beans.
at brekkie, n.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 212: ‘Can we have your autograph Fatty?’ Well I bridged up. ‘No worries,’ I said.
at bridge up (v.) under bridge, v.3
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 80: No matter how hard I tried, I just kept getting brushed off by every girl I spoke to.
at brush off, v.
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 110: We walked onto the racecourse like a pair of Wyatt Earps, cashed up and plenty of ammo and we walked off like a pair of Elmer Fudds, out of ‘buwwets’.
at bullet, n.2
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 140: [A] trolley hit my bung foot at about Warp Nine speed.
at bung, adj.2
[Aus] P. Vautin Turn It Up! 26: [T]he in thing as a 15-year-old was to walk around in front of your mates with a bunger hanging out of your mouth [ibid.] 179: [H]e was glad to get out just so that he could get back in the dressing-room and light up another bunger.
at bunger, n.2
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