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[Aus] Cohen & Murphy Burn 214: Every entrance to the ‘Glass House’ was covered by weaponry.
at Glass House, the, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 25: An’ who let you muck about with me fish?
at muck about, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 59: The idiot wanted frills, not a straight-out bang; then he didn’t come across.
at come across, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 5: The funniest thing was having to stand there on our first short-arm parade right out in the open.
at short-arm inspection (n.) under short arm, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 37: That’s what you’ve come back to, to see us given the arse.
at give someone the arse under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 9: Smartarse. Anyway you’re not stupid.
at smart-arse, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 43: ‘Git away from her or I’ll drop ya.’ ‘Pig’s tit you will.’ [Ibid.] 76: ‘Your woman needs better clothes.’ [...] ‘Pigs she does,’ Joy says elegantly.
at pig’s arse!, excl.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 125: Yet they want to clear us right out. Arsehole us completely.
at arsehole, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 109: Not if my glorious narrow-gutted, narrow-minded Australian workmates had any say in it.
at narrow-assed, adj.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 141: Don’t apologize to him. What are you coming at, Kincaid?
at come at, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 97: Struth, love, you’re mad as a meat-axe.
at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 127: You’re comin’ with me and don’t let’s hear any backchat out of ya.
at backchat, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 47: Why do you bash a man who tries to make a proper walkabout?
at bash, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 52: She’d had a bellyful of the city in a week.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 88: In the big smoke people spend their lives on making a lot less than this.
at Big Smoke, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 59: He didn’t come across [...] and there I was, minus my bikkies.
at bikkies, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 103: Strike me roan, one word and you’re off the track to billy-oh!
at billy-o, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 6: A lightning flash of bad temper blitzes from her pretty mouth.
at blitz, v.2
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 40: I’ve sat on my blot for the last twenty-five years, here.
at blot, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 141: Kincaid won’t open Mary’s bundle till those bludgers go.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 28: You tryin’ to bung on a blue?
at bung on a blue (v.) under blue, n.4
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 91: Two four six eight, bog in don’ wait.
at bog in, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 2: They dished him out a pair of yellow boots [...] socks and Bombay bloomers. Shorts. Shorts that were all one size and reached his ankles.
at Bombay bloomers (n.) under Bombay, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 89: I’d rather be a live booze artist than make a living outa bitsa faces.
at booze artist (n.) under booze, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 42: I can tell a better yarn than that old half-dead bag o’ bones. He’s not in the same street as me.
at in the same box under box, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 76: Bit of bread and scrape’ll do me.
at bread and scrape (n.) under bread, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 66: We’ve got a thing for this little piece of brush.
at brush, n.4
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 133: We make a trip, take a new car south or north or west for delivery, get bucks for that. Pick up a few dollars wherever we are.
at buck, n.3
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 125: Gees, don’ let ’em bull you, Billy. Let them lead you on and you’ll be working like a navvy ’fore you know where you are.
at bull, v.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Burn 57: He’s got a sweet line o’ bull as ever I seen.
at line of bull (n.) under bull, n.6
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