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[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 125: Shit-a-brick, you only have to look twice at some of the blokes in that town to get thumped on the bloody head.
at shit a brick!, excl.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 288: The vast majority of the people couldn’t give a bloody stiff shit about it!
at not give a shit, v.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 62: Men who were [...] walking, talking [...] a howyergarnmate-orrite?
at how are you going?, phr.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 279: After which I sincerely hope that, as with the Oogle Bird, you will not see my arse for dust.
at see (someone’s) arse for dust under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 219: I may be an officer and a bloody gentleman, but that don’t mean I can’t lower myself to indulge in a bit of arse-kicking in the ranks.
at arse-kicker (n.) under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 169: You are a bloody lop-eared, [...] arse-aching, [...] fart-faced flip of a fucking galah!
at arseache (n.) under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 18: Mentally, I was deteriorating into a state of extreme and critical withdrawal [...] stuck on the rim of a sun-baked, insular island down at the absolute arse-end of the world.
at arse-end, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 124: He [...] fell arse-over-bloody-head at our feet.
at arse over head under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 202: Christ, man, there’s gonna be white blood spilled from arsehole to breakfast time!
at from arsehole to breakfast (time) under arsehole, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 276: The Reverend, here, has worked like a bloody one-armed paper hanger to turn this place into something fit for human beings.
at busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 125: A little half-arsed cattle town.
at half-assed, adj.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 126: They’d be bad-eyeing us.
at bad-eye, v.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 132: Jesus, that old bag came on like a bloody steam train.
at bag, n.1
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 73: The blast of fire had a blow torch effect [...] scorching a bloody great hole in his best bag-o’-fruit.
at bag of fruit, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 332: We’ve got ’em by the bloody balls now.
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 69: Would you drive a clapped-out banger through a bloody church?
at banger, n.3
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 125: Like a real Wild West town [...] batwing doors on the bloody pubs.
at batwing, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 186: Hello, Tinker Bell. What’s that you’ve got there? Your wand?
at Tinker Bell, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 58: Most blokes go into terminal lunacy on the first swig, and he says try another belt.
at belt, n.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 316: You bet your sweet fucking life I am!
at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 55: I suppose you’re a big-deal crim.
at big deal, adj.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 169: You are a bloody lop-eared, [...] bird-brained [...] fart-faced flip of a fucking galah!
at birdbrain (n.) under bird, n.1
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 65: Keep the buggers out [...] You let one in, you’ve gotta take every-bloody-body and his dog.
at bloody, adv.
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 122: My Mum would’ve had a blue fit if she’d known.
at blue, adj.5
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 235: You’ve gotta wait around a whole day for the bloody tide to come back up. You’ll see! I’ll be shooting a bloody boomer tomorrow!
at boomer, n.4
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 11: When it comes to discipline, I’m the boss-cocky of this jail.
at boss cocky (n.) under boss, n.2
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 219: Within seconds he had produced yet another bottle of brain-damage, this one a home-made mango wine.
at brain damage (n.) under brain, n.1
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 58: See? He’s pissed out of his brain.
at out of one’s brain(s) (adj.) under brain, n.1
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 55: Dragged kicking and screaming through a wail of sirens and flash of rotating patrol car lights to the waiting bullwagon. [Ibid.] 187: Next thing, there’s police cars and bullwagons coming out of the bloody woodwork.
at bullwagon (n.) under bull, n.5
[Aus] D. Maitland Breaking Out 278: ‘It took me years to get where I am, and now you’re saying it means snutthing,’ he slurred drunkenly. [...] ‘Not so much as a bullock’s fart in a thunderstorm,’ Chisholm assured him.
at bullock’s fart in a thunderstorm (n.) under bullock, n.
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