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The Glass Canoe choose

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[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 75: One day he came home drunk as a lord.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 188: She paid a lot of attention to him, though, and mucked round quite a long time before he was given his head.
at muck about, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 203: Alky Jack [...] was already afloat.
at afloat, adj.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 76: Long as you’ve got a nice white shirt on and your black bow tie and you’re sober and speak nice, they’re all over you.
at all over, adj.2
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 67: Ernie saw the boss’s face one day after someone else had made his alley good by dobbing them.
at make one’s alley good (v.) under alley, n.3
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 16: When it was time to ante up with the brass for the meal he found he had seventy cents.
at ante (up), v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 186: If she does she does. If she doesn’t, she’s still apples.
at apples, adj.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 58: Sammy looks at Danny. He’s shaking. He’s died in the arse, Sammy tells himself, and moves on.
at die in the arse under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 47: You could have knocked me arse over tit with a feather.
at arse over tit under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 20: Normally if I smell a No in the air I give the bird the big A. No risk.
at arse, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 137: So I go whack. And knock this big bloke arse over head.
at arse over head under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 40: This woman wasn’t a drunkard or a fighter or even an old bag.
at bag, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 5: Not that the boys in blue were waiting outside the pub to put the bag on departing drinkers.
at put the bag on (v.) under bag, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 193: I’ll lounge about in the heat of the day / Chat with bagmen that come my way.
at bagman, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 103: Bags first shot.
at bags I!, excl.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 140: He came back brown as a berry from Queensland [...] ‘Been up north,’ he says. ‘Banana land.’.
at Bananaland (n.) under banana, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 75: They waited two months and then gave me two years in the Bay. Now i’m a criminal and I never stole anything in me life. Christ it was cold at Long Bay.
at Bay, the, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 48: If a stranger had done the same thing [...] they’d have joyfully thumped the shit out of him.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 42: Righto you two molls, I’d say. Stop it or I’ll hang one on you. And to the one out of her beat, Get up your own territory.
at beat, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 101: It wasn’t until half an hour later that we saw the first encounter between our monster and one of the old biddies.
at biddy, n.2
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 212: And when they were drunk, what then? A bit of biff? Not on your life.
at biff, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 20: I took her with Flash and his bit to the Showground.
at bit, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 205: I’d latched onto a bit of stray stuff.
at bit of stuff, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 181: He told me to look after her while he’s inside. You know, see she gets a bit.
at get a bit (v.) under bit, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 12: He bit me once and I only had enough cash for two more drinks [...] and I said no.
at bite, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 123: I had my pee. I even turned round and gave the little bloke a look — his first look — at a dead man.
at little bloke (n.) under bloke, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 136: He was a pleasant little guy. Never made much fuss round the pub, kept his blues for other places.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 25: While they were bluing, I thought of all that energy exploded during the few minutes the fight lasted.
at blue, v.3
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 5: Not that the boys in blue were waiting outside the pub to put the bag on departing drinkers.
at boys in blue, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 143: I decide I’ll take him all the way, tell him I’m on the way to Sydney, and Bob’s your uncle.
at bob’s your uncle, phr.
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