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Shiner Slattery 123: He [...] had wound a stocking around each foot to make the feet fit the boots. ‘Prince Alberts’, he called the wrappings.at Prince Alberts, n.
Shiner Slattery 123: He [...] had wound a stocking around each foot to make the feet fit the boots. ‘Prince Alberts’, he called the wrappings. Shiner Slattery 71: On this day Michael Doolan ‘was carrying on something awful’.at awful, adv.
Shiner Slattery 51: It’s a man who knows when to give others the bird.at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
Shiner Slattery 114: You don’t know whether she’s [...] going for the poker now so she can crack you over the head and tell you to go to blazes.at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
Shiner Slattery 31: Into the box one of us gets.at box, n.1
Shiner Slattery 151: What separates a successful bruiser from a brawler, a Shiner from a company promoter?at bruiser, n.
Shiner Slattery 102: I’m a chronic would-be alcoholic.at chronic, adj.
Shiner Slattery 36: His chucker-out had bolted.at chucker-out, n.
Shiner Slattery 25: But for the coves that’s out of collar, mates, there’s hunger in the air.at out of collar under collar, n.
Shiner Slattery 118: ‘He’ll give ye a starter if you have a good cheque.’ ‘A kick in the tail when the cheque’s cut out.’.at cut out a cheque (v.) under cut out, v.3
Shiner Slattery 168: He knew he was the most tolerated deadbeat in New Zealand’s history.at deadbeat, n.
Shiner Slattery 32: Taking down a recalcitrant runholder was better than taking down a publican.at take down, v.
Shiner Slattery 119: ‘Look, there’s two hacks on the rail.’ [...] ‘Two customers.’.at hack, n.1
Shiner Slattery 159: ‘Let me see myself in a knocker before I die.’ [...] Shiner put the hat on at a jaunty angle.at hard-hitter, n.
Shiner Slattery 28: Used to employ hard-ups and see if he could get them to work.at hard-up, n.2
Shiner Slattery 9: Many a good horse, overburdened, became a jibber.at jibber, n.
Shiner Slattery 57: They had been in every lockup in the South Island.at lockup, n.
Shiner Slattery 170: A few packs of cards bulged their pockets [...] City spielers, magsmen.at magsman, n.
Shiner Slattery 168: He could talk of the ould sod. He could dance an Irish jig.at Old Sod, n.
Shiner Slattery 140: Did you ever hear of a man called Arthur Beaumont who poled three hundred thousand pounds?at pole, v.
Shiner Slattery 26: I’m going by shank’s pony with my swag upon my back.at shanks’s pony, n.
Shiner Slattery 16: The Catholics, no doubt, sang the same refrain to ‘Proddy Dog’.at Proddy, n.
Shiner Slattery 27: I’ll shoulder bluey once again and by rattler I’ll go back.at rattler, n.
Shiner Slattery 7: Pioneer communities hug their scallywags, as much as their heroes, to their chests, when men meet in the bar.at scallywag, n.
Shiner Slattery 149: The conjurer was shaping up to the Shiner.at shape (up) (v.) under shape, v.
Shiner Slattery 8: Edmond Slattery, the Shiner, was a loafer who could walk fifty miles in a day.at shiner, n.2
Shiner Slattery 41: We’ll get one on the slate.at slate, n.1
Shiner Slattery 170: He knew the type. Not swaggers looking for work. City spielers, magsmen.at spieler, n.
Shiner Slattery 49: I’ll have you know it’s a sparrow, a common spug.at spug, n.
Shiner Slattery 43: He didn’t have a penny. As stony as I am at this moment.at stony, adj.1
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