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Kangaroo choose

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[Aus] D.H. Lawrence Kangaroo 364: Look at ’em, and you’ll see they’ve got good, heavy-weight sit-upons [...] Greedy fat-arses, mates if you’ll pardon the vulgarity for once. Greedy fat-arses.
at fat-arse, n.
[Aus] D.H. Lawrence Kangaroo 375: Cripes, there’s nothing bucks you up sometimes like killing a man—nothing. You feel a perfect angel after it.
at buck up, v.2
[Aus] D.H. Lawrence Kangaroo 317: ‘Police!’ snarled Jack. ‘Bloody Johnny Hops!’ [Ibid.] 373: It’s our boys who’ve got things in hand. And handed them over to the Hops.
at john hop, n.
[Aus] D.H. Lawrence Kangaroo 365: They’ve got more greedy brains in the seats of their pants than in their top storeys.
at top piece (n.) under top, adj.
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