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The Traveller’s Tool choose

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[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 3: The spot on the globe ‘where the action is’ today.
at action, n.
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 45: She’s never given me much aggro in all our married life.
at aggro, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 92: I was in the Big Apple at the time doing a major Australian promotion.
at Big Apple, n.
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 50: Up to the apricots with a Eurasian air hostess.
at apricots, n.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 19: All I can say is that I’ve knocked around the traps.
at knock around, v.
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 7: The rest of them will crawl up his arse!
at arse crawl (v.) under arse, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 12: Even Stevie Wonder could see they’ve got style coming out their arseholes.
at arsehole, n.
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 14: Any time of year after three-thirty in the arvo.
at arvo, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 20: He told me she’d been got at by a pack of ‘Daphnes’.
at get at, v.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 36: Allegations of back-handers, kickbacks and sugar-bagging have been made.
at sugar-bag, v.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 13: They certainly notch up more than their fair share of bearded clams.
at bearded clam, n.
[Aus] B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 97: After a couple of belts of Hoffmeister, Renate came into focus.
at belt, n.
[Aus] 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.
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