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The Big Ask choose

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[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 3: Where’d you get the bump? You look like you’ve gone three rounds with a revolving door.
at go three rounds with a revolving door (v.) under rounds with a revolving door, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 176: I thought she was about to come across with something, then she suddenly left.
at come across, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 116: Frankly, it’s a miracle you’re not still chasing ambulances for a living, you slimy arsehole.
at ambulance-chasing (n.) under ambulance-chaser, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 12: A relationship [...] I’d settle for a bit of slap and tickle.
at slap and tickle, n.2
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 97: Darren’s up on the roof, arsing around.
at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 1: It was 4.30 a.m., a Monday morning at the arse-end of winter.
at arse-end, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 201: Take it easy [...] I get the message. You’re quite the hairy-arsed individual, aren’t you?
at hairy-arsed, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 246: Bag Agnelli. Attack his competence as transport minister [...] say he isn’t up to the job.
at bag, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 23: His true function was that of Howard’s bag man [...] and general gofer.
at bagman, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 247: I appreciate your efforts [...] I really do, but I’ve bailed. My best bet was to get out while the going was good.
at bail, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 102: On the dot of six o’clock a police car came screaming down the road [...] Shortly after, an ambulance did the same. Had the squished tomato incident gone ballistic, I wondered?
at go ballistic (v.) under ballistic, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 197: Can’t see Howard Sharpe or Mike McGrath going in to bat for you over charges like that.
at go to bat for (v.) under bat, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 130: ‘Any idea how it happened?’ ‘Beats me.’.
at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 282: The pile-up was impressive. A six-vehicle fender-bender.
at fender-bender, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 162: All I know is that you were sticking your bib where it didn’t belong.
at stick one’s bib (in) (v.) under bib, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 51: Wendy wore the big banana’s trousers in the public affairs department at Telecom.
at big banana (n.) under big, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 19: Makes you wonder how the government’s union cronies will react to attempts to slug their members. Not to mention the big wheels of the Transport Industry Association.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 155: Noel Webb [...] smirked at this [i.e. comment], as though I’d exposed myself as a fatuous big-noter.
at big noter, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 98: Running around making a nuisance of himself at every Stuhl depot and office from here to the Black Stump.
at black stump, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 17: It was August 1991 and even Blind Freddy could see that his enjoyment of these facilities was bearing its conclusion.
at blind Freddie, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 131: ‘I look like a bogan,’ Red complained.
at bogan, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 235: A girl likes to be romanced. Not have her bones jumped when she’s half-tanked.
at jump (on) someone’s bones (v.) under bones, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 18: Fixing his fuck-ups and burying his boo-boos.
at boo-boo, n.4
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 68: If this woman was mine, I’d be superglued to her, not chasing turnstile attendants in the boondocks.
at boondocks, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 39: Hardly a thousand people were milling about, crowding the bars or bopping on the dance floor.
at bop, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 239: In accordance with the known wishes of the deceased, there was no god-bothering and the bare minimum of ceremony.
at God-bothering, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 41: Lover boy caught me watching and tried to stare me out.
at lover-boy, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 101: Donny Maitland arrived. He breezed through the door [...] and greeted me.
at breeze, v.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 16: I wouldn’t have been trying to play funny buggers with the most powerful [...] union in the state.
at play silly buggers (v.) under bugger, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Big Ask 108: He snuck into some bughouse screening a midnight-to-dawn Star Trek marathon.
at bughouse, n.
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