1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 24: I tend to be all over the place like a mad woman’s shit.at all over the place like a mad woman’s shit, phr.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 36: The economy is up and down like a bride’s nightie.at off like a bride’s nightie under off like a..., phr.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 8: Pick an escort agency or a rub-and-tug shop with a name like a restaurant.at rub-a-tug shop, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 25: As a shag she might score zero, but she’s ace at washing, ironing, and keeping a man’s tucker warm.at ace, adj.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 8: They don’t even bother to get your Amex authorised before coming across with the goods.at come across, v.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 3: The spot on the globe ‘where the action is’ today.at action, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 45: She’s never given me much aggro in all our married life.at aggro, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 80: At the top of the market we’ve got plenty of arty crafty frog-style restaurants who charge like a wounded bull.at arty-(and-)crafty, adj.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 92: I was in the Big Apple at the time doing a major Australian promotion.at Big Apple, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 50: Up to the apricots with a Eurasian air hostess.at apricots, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 13: Some whizz kids have even determined that Harold Holt wasn’t sucked off a rock by a Noah.at Noah’s (ark), n.1
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 19: All I can say is that I’ve knocked around the traps.at knock around, v.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 7: The rest of them will crawl up his arse!at arse crawl (v.) under arse, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 35: What does she mean by rooting the arse off your best mate.at — the arse/ass off under arse, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 12: Even Stevie Wonder could see they’ve got style coming out their arseholes.at arsehole, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 26: Even if I was as full as three race trains. [Ibid.] 58: You can sometimes fall out of a jumbo as full as a footie final.at full as..., adj.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 132: I doubt if anyone from England or even the States, where they’re as rough as guts, would take that claim seriously.at ...guts under rough as..., adj.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 20: He told me she’d been got at by a pack of ‘Daphnes’.at get at, v.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 107: The occasional little stewardess who has rashly settled for a bottom-of-the-range Cartier watch and a Bedouin bazooka up her back bottie.at back bottie (n.) under back, adj.2
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 36: Allegations of back-handers, kickbacks and sugar-bagging have been made.at sugar-bag, v.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 20: If you could see some of the boiler-suited ballbreakers who run our student unions.at ball-breaker, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 113: Parky’s got the old chat show game by the balls and he knows every wrinkle in the business.at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 70: You just have to tread in one of the ever-popular Barker’s Eggs which litter British pavements.at barker’s egg, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 87: It’s mind-boggling to the average Samsonite-basher from England, the States or Down Under. [Ibid.] 114: I know that fantastic old Polish tarmac-basher is creaming his cassock for a nice long chin-wag with Yours Truly.at -basher, sfx
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 127: She says it’s a pleasure opening the envelope with her teeth, but it’s a bastard having to tackle a rubber reef knot.at bastard, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 107: The occasional little stewardess who has rashly settled for a bottom-of-the-range Cartier watch and a Bedouin bazooka up her back bottie.at bazooka, n.1
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 13: They certainly notch up more than their fair share of bearded clams.at bearded clam, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 97: After a couple of belts of Hoffmeister, Renate came into focus.at belt, n.
1985 B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 22: Name another world power where the police aren’t as bent as a two-bob watch.at bent as a two-bob watch (adj.) under bent, adj.