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[Aus] Sun. Herald Sun (Melbourne) 1 Oct. 40: One of his most famous punts was the publication of Spycatcher, which ‘made me very unpopular with Mrs Thatcher but that didn’t worry me for one moment’, he says with some satisfaction.
at punt, n.1
[Aus] Herald Sun (Melbourne) 19 Oct. 43: He introduces the audience to several people in the front row: Kamahl from Kealba, Shane from Wallan and Aresti from Caulfield. His random selection results in an Indian, a ’skippy’ and a Greek.
at skippy, n.2
[Aus] Sun. Herald Sun (Melbourne) 1 Mar. 52: As for the emergency umpires, it seems their sole purpose is to sit on the boundary and ping players for the slightest infringement.
at ping, v.
[Aus] Herald-Sun 26 Sept. (Victoria, Aus.) 🌐 ‘I was as flat as a tack after the draw,’ Cowton said. ‘The whole season build-up was to that last Saturday in September. All of a sudden there’s another game, and I couldn’t get my mind around it. I was going through the motions.’.
at flat as a tack (adj.) under flat, adj.3
[Aus] Sun. Herald Sun (Melbourne Aus.) 9 Mar. Z/27: (The green consumerist approach) persuaded the Bobos (bourgeois bohemians), already the most spoilt generation in American history, that they can have their cake and eat it.
at bobo, n.3
[Aus] Sun. Herald Sun (Melbourne, Aus.) 9 Mar. Z/27: Most would agree glamour greenies have the potential to do for the environmental cause what Jamie Oliver did for getting men in to the kitchen.
at greenie, n.3
[Aus] Sun. Herald Sun (Melbourne Aus.) 9 Mar. Z/27: Alicia Silverstone spruiking (haranguing) for organic cosmetics may not impact on global warming, but ...
at spruik, v.
[Aus] Herald Sun (Melbourne) 3 Jan. 🌐 I’ve been suppressing my inner bogan. I haven’t let her out for a run since leaving my family home of Colac, where free-spirited, footy-loving country bogans walk proud without fear.
at inner bogan (n.) under bogan, n.
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