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Behind the Banana Curtain choose

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[Aus] H. Lunn Behind the Banana Curtain 187: I won’t comment much on their football — called aerial pingpong in Queensland — because I don’t understand it.
at aerial pingpong, n.
[Aus] H. Lunn Behind Banana Curtain 191: ‘Don’t worry, I will take you fellas,’ the driver said. ‘All the other cabs are taking the calls for the shiny arses but I won’t be in it for the shinies.’.
at shiny-bum, n.
[Aus] H. Lunn Behind Banana Curtain 43: [Ch. title] Copping the Raw prawn.
at come the raw prawn (v.) under come the..., v.
[Aus] H. Lunn Behind Banana Curtain 56: Oh, the good old days are gone with the blacks. You can’t give them a bloody razzle dazzle like you used to be able to.
at razzle-dazzle, n.
[Aus] H. Lunn Behind Banana Curtain 45: [ch. title] A Fair Cow of a Turnout.
at fair cow (n.) under fair, adj.
[Aus] H. Lunn Behind Banana Curtain 86: Pat managed to round up several ‘Mickey’ bulls (uncastrated wild cattle).
at mickey, n.1
[Aus] H. Lunn Behind Banana Curtain 59: Every roughie in the world’s got that on his farm.
at roughie, n.1
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