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[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 155: But I’m happy as a clam in this land of fleas and sand.
at ...a clam under happy as..., adj.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 88: He’d go up to a guard and [...] suck his lips and look as happy as a hooked fish.
at ...a sick eel on a sandpit under happy as..., adj.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 140: Everyone had bashed up a duff for himself at one stage or another. Could anything be more delicious?
at bash up (v.) under bash, v.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 157: When you get back, we’ll [...] go on a great dirty bash together.
at bash, n.1
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 172: He hauled off and flattened one with a beauty swipe.
at beaut, adj.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 140: First you’ve got to make sure that bint is a good cook.
at bint, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 36: I’ve forgotten to blither about this woman.
at blither, v.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 68: When she began to blitz him about breaking a bed-pan.
at blitz, v.2
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 138: Aw, no. I just can’t be blowed.
at blowed, adj.1
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 17: Kraft cheese (‘Best bung.’).
at bung, n.7
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 80: Finally one Kiwi, cheesed off with all the arguing, volunteered to cook.
at cheesed (off), adj.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 81: The bleedin’ ‘Rose of Tralee’, choom.
at choom, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 74: We described this impotent writhing as ‘climbing up the wall’.
at climb (up) the walls (v.) under climb, v.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 170: I’ve got the wind up over those knives since – since Ed and Jim copped it.
at cop it, v.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 138: I hope for a moment our bombsights are all they’re cracked up to be.
at crack up, v.1
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 117: Let’s cut the lot. [...] Eat ’em all now.
at cut, v.6
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 106: Eyes Down! And the first number [...] Number Nine, the doctor’s favourite.
at doctor’s favourite (n.) under doctor, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious 146: By crikey, we used to say, wouldn’t it be great to collect all the cigarette butts chucked away at the old cinemas back home? Remember all the ‘doggins’ round the lounges and entrances?
at doggin, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 153: For we are the boys from Way Down Under, / SONS OF THE ANZACS ARE WE!
at down under, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 106: Eyes down! And the first number [...] legs Eleven.
at legs eleven, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 47: They said the Ites were dirty and uncivilised.
at Eyetie, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 19: Grimy as a sweep, greasy as a butcher’s pup manhandling ammunition, but oh I feel fine, fit as a buck rat.
at fit as a buck rat (adj.) under fit, adj.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 15: I’m a flamin’ uncle again.
at flaming, adj.2
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 172: He hauled off and flattened one with a beauty swipe.
at flatten, v.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 116: I stuck it on top of the photograph of the Old Boys’ footie team I played for in 1935.
at footie, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 76: ‘Let her go, Ray,’ we said. ‘Fire ahead, boy. Get it off your chest; it will do you good.’.
at let her go (Gallagher), v.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 133: We persuaded one or two to give us ‘some of the griff’.
at griffin, n.4
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 80: I’m not going to slog my guts out and have you moaning all the time.
at sweat one’s guts out (v.) under gut, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 154: In memory of Egypt, we next sing ‘My Little Gyppo Bint you’re Kwise Kateer’.
at gyppo, adj.
[NZ] J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 134: Stand back, you jokers. Give us a look in.
at look-in, n.
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