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Diogenes’ Sandals choose

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[Aus] N.H. Kennard Diogenes’ Sandals 5: You’re all to pieces, old fellow.
at all to pieces, adj.
[Aus] N.H. Kennard Diogenes’ Sandals 176: They said in the village that he had not ‘got all his buttons’, meaning that he was not ‘all there’.
at not all there, adj.
[Aus] N.H. Kennard Diogenes’ Sandals 9: I am dead-sick of the whole blooming show.
at blooming shoot (n.) under blooming, adj.1
[Aus] N.H. Kennard Diogenes’ Sandals 176: They said in the village that he had not ‘got all his buttons’, meaning that he was not ‘all there’.
at not have all one’s buttons (v.) under button, n.1
[Aus] N.H. Kennard Diogenes’ Sandals 178: They’d come in with a lot of leather bags and bladders full o’ whiskey [...] and they’d sell ye ‘guzzle’ for next to nothin’.
at guzzle, n.
[Aus] N.H. Kennard Diogenes’ Sandals 169: She and Job Yetts [...] made a ‘spainken’ couple.
at spanking, adj.
[Aus] N.H. Kennard Diogenes’ Sandals 189: Please do not use strong language.
at strong, adj.
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