1976 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.
1976 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
1976 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
1976 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.
1976 D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 186: If she does she does. If she doesn’t, she’s still apples.at apples, adj.
1976 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.
1976 D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 47: You could have knocked me arse over tit with a feather.at arse over tit under arse, n.
1976 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.
1976 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.
1976 D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 40: This woman wasn’t a drunkard or a fighter or even an old bag.at bag, n.1
1976 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
1976 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.
1976 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.
1976 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.
1976 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.
1976 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
1976 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
1976 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
1976 D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 20: I took her with Flash and his bit to the Showground.at bit, n.1
1976 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
1976 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.
1976 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.
1976 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
1976 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
1976 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.
1976 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.