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Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Apr. 18/3: I soon got fed up with it, but Bob was as pleased as a pup with two tails.at pleased as a dog with two cocks, phr.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Apr. 18/3: I soon got fed up with it, but Bob was as pleased as a pup with two tails. Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 2/2: I’m goin’ ter [...] see wevver ’vese ’ere old Crusyder coves useter be planted wiv their p’y in their tin pockits. A bloke u’d be real stiff if he didn’t get a few akkers aht of it!at acker, n.1
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Apr. 2/3: Well, the fat was in the fire then, I saw trouble looming ahead, when Three Stars said, ‘Hurry up, rip the pelt off, and let’s have half of it.’.at fat is in the fire, (all) the, phr.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Oct. 4/1: During the short retirement a ‘whizz-bang’ struck the said mule amidships, and exploding, deprived the ‘annoyance’ of pack saddle and all else of military value and more or less covered the Russian with gore.at amidships, adv.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 May 11/1: He called again, and said that he was prepared to command a Brigade, Regiment, or Troop. They were not having any, so he enlisted as a trooper.at not having any, phr.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 May 7/3: ’Member when we uster lob inter camp, covered in dust and dry as bones? Why, we were as happy as Larry. Use’n’t the lads to swear when they bumped their septics?at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 4/1: You must never fret or worry, be as gentle as a lamb, / ’Cause if you were back in Aussie you’d ride free upon a tram.at Aussie, n.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Sept. 14/3: Cooks range from the grease-besmudged ‘babbler’, who dishes up a monotonous succession of ‘teas straight’, bad language and an occasional stew, to the natty, smart-looking chef.at babbler, n.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 July 5/1: Our troop corporal, ‘Bluey’ Jones, hailing from ‘Back o’ Sunset,’ was getting about with two indelible stripes resplendent on his old felt, when the sergt.-major pulled him up with, ‘Have you got any chevrons?’ […] ‘Blowed if I know, Major; but I suffer pretty badly with corns.’ [...] Mick Cluney and Billy Green both hailed from the same town, somewhere ‘Out-back o’ Sunset,’ and to outward appearances they were deadly enemies.at back of Bourke under back, adv.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 May 15/3: When we had made the boys as comfortable as possible and given them fags, of which our Padre seemed to have an inexhaustible supply, they were quite cheerful, and joked about ‘backsheesh’ wounds. [Ibid.] 20/1: There is seldom much work for a pack-horse in a rest-camp, consequently, ‘Kiddman’ was regarded as backsheesh by the troopers. In a horse-sense, backsheesh has a meaning directly the opposite to its pecuniary applications.at baksheesh, adj.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 June 3/2: He promised me that I’d get the best kind of artificial foot backsheesh, and that I’d never regret the lost original. I can tell you, I went dead crook about it at first, but he looked so disappointed that I hadn’t the heart to refuse.at baksheesh, adv.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 June 15/1: Then, through the cymbals’ rhythm, I suddenly recognised the old, old refrain, ‘Gib it backsheesh; gib it backsheesh.’ I gave.at baksheesh, n.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Apr. 4/3: For two days Billjim longed in vain for the forbidden juice, but on the evening of the third day a truck containing 40 cases of ‘Oh be joyful’ was shunted on the siding, and two gaunt camels proceeded to take it […] to the Canteens.at o-be-joyful, n.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Apr. 4/3: [O]ne of the Billjims, who had a forty horse-power whisky thirst, was sent back to the L.H. dump at Rafa for a spell.at billjim, n.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Mar. 5/3: It was a poem to some ‘bint’ named Violet.at bint, n.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 June 18/2: We’re fed up seeing dusky bints and toothless Arab hags, / And picture maids of fairer tints in smoke of issue fags. / We’d like to see some ‘Blighty’ girls when time is running slack, / An’ spin ’em yarns of Palestine – they’ve ’eard about Anzac.at Blighty, adj.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Mar. 3/3: Who slaps on foments boiling hot, / Rubs ‘bluestone’ on a tender spot; / Whether you want her to or not? / Ah Sister!at bluestone (n.) under blue, adj.1
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 17/1: I am not handsome, neither am I vain; but when they issued me with ‘blues’ at the 14th. A.G.H. [...] I wanted to go away and die quickly in a dark corner.at blues, n.2
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Oct. 2/3: ‘Bluey’ is a large, red-headed, good-natured youth.at bluey, n.1
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Apr. 17: And after we had sunk a few boozes… We saw the A.P.M. But he saw us first.at booze, n.
Kia Ora Coo-ee Nov. 18/1: I’ll easy be able to hold down a job as boss cocky of a restaurant.at boss cocky (n.) under boss, n.2
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 19/3: The squadron leader came around, and Bill breasts up, and thrusting his tin plate almost under the officer’s nose, asks, ‘Do you think that is a breakfast for a hungry man?’.at breast (up to), v.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 May 17/3: He’ll like to see a lot of buck and swank about you, and, by God, you can swank if you like, and it’s me that knows it.at buck, n.1
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 17/1: After I’d been in Hospital for about three weeks, they treated me pretty low down, I thought – took me off ‘light diet’ and sent me into the ‘bull ring’ for meals.at bull-ring, n.1
‘The Army Mules’ in Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Mar. 9/1: Over the railways and over the dumps, over the Hun and the Turk, / You’ll hear him mutter, ‘What ho, she bumps’ when the Archies get to work.at what ho, she bumps!, excl.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 June 13/1: I observed that we had suddenly run into a nest of ‘Archies’. They dogged our footsteps for 20 minutes or so which, although not long as time goes, is a veritable age when one happens to be in the ‘bus’ receiving attention.at bus, n.2
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 May 14/3: I’ll bet with Peter or with Nick he’ll have a little joke; / He simply has to smile or bust, he’s just that kind of bloke.at — or bust under bust, n.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 5/1: A certain New Zealand Regiment, camped on the Jordan flats, recently came under the eagle eye of brother ‘Jacko’, who immediately went ‘butcher’s hook’ or ‘ram’s horn’ and launched forth much frightfulness by lugging a 5.9 up on to one of the spare hills and chucking ironmongery promiscuously about the landscape.at go/be butcher’s (hook) (v.) under butcher’s (hook), adj.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 June 4/2: ‘D’ye call that a fair cut? Why, a man can hardly see it?’ The trooper-waiter was not less aggressive. ‘Buzz off’, he said, ‘what d’yer think Allenby gives yer binoculars for?’.at buzz off!, excl.
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 June 3/3: Game abounds in parts; geese, sandgrouse, partridge, duck and ‘Captain Cookers’ have figured in our bill of fare.at Captain Cook, n.
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