1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 8: Not Sir Wonderway Aygot-Thissere job of the Min. of Ag.at ag, n.1
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 105: Back and fill: to change your mind too often.at back and fill, v.
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 16: ‘You a to and from?’ ‘I’m English,’ you say, guessing rightly that a to and from is Aussie rhyming slang for Pom.at to-and-from, n.
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 44: The word Balt is used loosely [...] to describe anyone who is not a British immigrant.at Balt, n.2
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 105: Block, to keep the: to keep calm.at keep one’s block (v.) under block, n.1
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 105: Block, the: the main street.at do the block (v.) under block, n.8
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 105: Bushbaby: a man who has spent too long in the desert, and is off his head.at bush baby (n.) under bush, n.1
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 17: You gotta ask for it in Orstalian, then! [...] You want two butchers or two schooners. Or two ponies.at butcher, n.3
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 106: Cat, to whip the: to bear malice, to cry over spilt milk.at whip the cat, v.
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 106: Clerk, pox doctor’s, to be dressed up like a: to be over-dressed.at done up like a pox doctor’s clerk under pox-doctor’s clerk, n.
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 106: Crow: a South Australian (from the badge of the State).at crow, n.2
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 100: If you can smooge an ’orse a day and crool yer cobbers pitch, / Buy forty thousand goes at Tatts and never strike it rich [...] then turn around and bludge your mates for schooner whacks of beer / and drink it frozen, son, you’re close on losin’ Pommy ways.at cruel (the pitch), v.
1963 R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 107: Lid, to dip the: to raise your hat.at dip one’s lid (v.) under lid, n.