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[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 126: Tall skinny weed of a bloke? [...] Married to a classer?
at class act, n.
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 120: It’s a breeze.
at breeze, n.1
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 211: He invented this character for her, where she was nine hundred years old, ugly as a rat’s ding.
at ding, n.1
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 157: Mate, you are a fart.
at fart, n.
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 210: A jockey was a ‘fork’, his whip a ‘flute’.
at fork, n.1
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 210: A supply of betting money was a ‘mazuma’.
at mazuma, n.
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 210: A jockey was a ‘fork’ [...] a sure thing a ‘monty’ or ‘soda’.
at monte, n.1
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 15: ‘Beaut-o,’ gasped Terry.
at -o, sfx
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 210: The bookies always left Terry ‘without a mintie’, ‘with a run of outs’.
at out, n.
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 211: He invented this character for her, where she was nine hundred years old, ugly as a rat’s ding.
at ugly as a shithouse rat (adj.) under shithouse rat, n.
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 132: Now, that’s a shithouse thing to say.
at shithouse, adj.
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 210: A jockey was a ‘fork’ [...] a sure thing a ‘monty’ or ‘soda’.
at soda, n.1
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 210: The bookies always left Terry ‘without a mintie’, [...] ‘stuck with the undertaker’s job’.
at stuck with (adj.) under stuck, adj.
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 76: No sweat, Wan, Terry loves us down here.
at no sweat under sweat, n.
[Aus] R. McDonald Rough Wallaby 219: Mugs poised to slip the bookies a ‘willie.’.
at willie, n.3
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