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[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 173: You seem to be ace high with the manager, and you’re terrible well in.
at ace-high, adj.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 38: ‘Gee! I remember once,’ she said, ashing her cigarette on my coat-sleeve.
at ash, v.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 58: ‘Useless Annie’s in the bag,’ he whispered.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 196: ‘Gee! There’s ma back again! Can you beat it!’ He dodged away.
at can you beat it? under beat, v.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 🌐 When Mustard Plaster won the Carrington Stakes, in 1902, and I had my metaphorical shirt on Onkus, a retired cart-horse that couldn’t beat a carpet.
at couldn’t beat a carpet under beat, v.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 169: ‘Let bygones be bygones,’ I said, ‘What is a biff in the neck between father and son?’ .
at biff, n.1
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 156: ‘Oh, go to blazes!’ I said, and walked away.
at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 81: ‘Come here, you blighter!’ I shouted.
at blighter, n.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 192: ‘If yer interrupt again Bung’ll bowl yer. Wont yer, Bung?’ ‘Too right, I will,’ muttered Bung, savagely.
at bowl, v.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 37: ‘What’s that?’ I gasped. ‘It’s the Boys!’ cried Stanley, and rushed to let them in.
at boys, the, n.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 256: We can’t leave it here, Brains. S’posin’ the owner seen it?
at brain, n.1
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 98: ‘Suppose we’d better hit the kapok.’ ‘Hit what?’ I queried. ‘Hit the kapok. Bungidoo - snatch a stretch of shut-eye, somnolosa, go to sleep’.
at bungidoo, v.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 278: Any one wot tries to bunk out the door gets donged.
at bunk, v.1
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 101: ‘I wasn’t goin’ to have these city blokes pickin’ me for a bushwhacker’.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 148: Straight from the Never-Never by the look of him. Is he cashed up?
at cashed up, adj.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 44: ‘Seven and eightpence. Set the centre! Set the centre!’ ‘Two bob you tail ’em,’ said the milkman.
at centre, n.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 50: ‘Steak knows an absolute cert for today. Opportunity only knocks once. Come on!’ .
at cert, n.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 100: ‘Isn’t Agatha here?’ ‘No,’ I snapped. ‘Thank crikeys! I’ll stay with you for a while’.
at thank Christ, phr.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 176: ‘Flannery’s chucker-out, the two barmen and the girl from the private bar’ .
at chucker-out, n.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 115: ‘Where?’ ‘Clink,’ said Stanley succinctly. George looked at me interrogatively. ‘He means the cooler,’ I explained. ‘Quod?’ ‘Yes’ .
at clink, n.1
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 115: ‘Where?’ ‘Clink,’ said Stanley succinctly. George looked at me interrogatively. ‘He means the cooler,’ I explained. ‘Quod?’ ‘Yes’ .
at cooler, n.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 105: ‘Ah, there you are, Jack. My crikeys, you’ve slept in this morning!’.
at crikey!, excl.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 184: ‘’E was that cut up, I felt sorry for ‘im, but all the same, the kid couldn’t ’a’ been too strong in the first place, and wot I says is----’.
at cut up, adj.1
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 96: ‘Ds!’ shouted Woggo. ‘Ho! Simp!’ ‘Har, I loves detectives,’ pealed Simpson, shedding his coat.
at D, n.2
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 126: George fell out and the engine stopped. ‘Dammit!’ cursed Stanley.
at damn it!, excl.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 12: ‘I mean, well damitall he orders steak and eggs, doesn’t he?’.
at damn it!, excl.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 76: The blood of the Gudgeons surged within me. ‘Stay there, you banana-spined dingo’ .
at dingo, n.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 78: ‘All this chop and tomato stuff - is it fair dinkum?’ ‘It is,’ he replied.
at fair dinkum, adj.
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 102: ‘That young Stanley must be a bit of a doer!’ ‘You said it,’ I agreed.
at doer, n.2
[Aus] L. Lower Here’s Luck 168: ‘I comes up to the stand for the sole purpose of bitin’ yer ear for a few quid, and yer bolts!’.
at bite someone’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
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