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[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 167: No man is an island [...] but I certainly felt like one [...] I was a shag on a rock.
at like a shag on a rock under like a..., phr.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 33: Some desperado with several grand of illegal ab in one hand and a diving knife in the other.
at ab, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 127: No point in continuing to buggerise around in the dark.
at buggerize (about), v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 122: I stomped on the anchors [...] and the Magna went into a skid.
at anchor, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 217: You’ll be meeting parole conditions for the rest of your sorry-arsed life.
at sorry-ass, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 130: And weren’t petty crims sometimes employed to baby-sit dope plantations?
at babysit, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 37: A stream of burley erupted from Dudley Wilson’s mouth.
at berley, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 27: A couple of rookie cops en route to the bingle outside the Hilton.
at bingle, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 94: The surf scene [...] was tight and the local nazis took a dim view of blow-in grommets.
at blow-in, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 125: Absurd figure in Bombay bloomers demonstrates correct technique for detection of rogue wildebeest.
at Bombay bloomers (n.) under Bombay, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 29: Princess Diana denies bonking rugger bugger.
at bonk, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 41: A bunch of bozos were playing pool.
at bozo, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 37: I lunged for the side and barfed into the briny.
at briny, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 29: Princess Diana denies bonking rugger bugger.
at rugger bugger, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 178: I’m not playing funny buggers here, officer.
at play silly buggers (v.) under bugger, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 218: Drop my bundle now and I’d be no use to anyone.
at drop one’s bundle (v.) under bundle, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 47: Disturbed during a daylight burg in South Yarra he belted the householder.
at burg, n.2
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 123: You are not lost. You have merely paused to orientate yourself. Five minutes later, I conceded that I was utterly bushed.
at bushed, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 23: Behind her butterball exterior, Gillian was sharp as a tack.
at butterball (n.) under butter, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 39: I’ll be carpetted for letting you lot come along.
at carpet, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 168: [...] a less celebrated but evidently cashed-up restaurateur.
at cashed up, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 63: Tonight the bands were called Chocolate Starfish [and] Bumcrack.
at chocolate starfish (n.) under chocolate, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 95: There’s no mileage in busting your chops.
at bust one’s chops (v.) under chops, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 70: The randy desperation which led me to crack on to a half-sloshed twenty-four-year-old.
at crack on, v.2
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 27: The bike was supplied by one of Parish’s crim associates.
at crim, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 216: You don’t know the half of it, you dopey deadshit.
at dead shit (n.) under dead, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 112: All dicked up in my new-bought leisure-wear.
at dicked up, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 114: Hooley-dooley, I thought. Whacko the did.
at whacko the diddle-oh!, excl.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 83: We were almost totalled by a dipstick in an Audi.
at dipstick, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 89: Tarquin clumped across the bare floorboards in his Docs.
at docs, n.
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