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Pallet on the Floor choose

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[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 102: I got reason not to give a dam.
at not give a damn, v.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 121: We’re grogging on regardless. Party in Johnny Whakaro’s batch.
at bach, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 74: ‘Rape her my backside,’ said Miriam crudely.
at my backside! (excl.) under backside, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 89: I tell you, we’ve got him over a barrel.
at have someone over a barrel (v.) under barrel, n.1
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 89: The cottage isn’t worth a damn. The section’s overgrown to blazes.
at blazes, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 96: God, I feel like a bracer.
at bracer, n.1
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 141: I’ve had the breeze up going over this road to and from the quarry.
at get the breeze up (v.) under breeze, n.1
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 41: ‘Aw, bunkum,’ said Sam.
at bunkum, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 89: You and your eighty quid! Just chicken feed.
at chickenfeed, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 49: You’re all up the shoot.
at up the chute under chute, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 111: Looks like he’s copped it awright.
at cop it, v.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 53: Hastening [...] up the stairs to the ‘donko’ to wrap the sacking known as ‘sneakers’ around his boots; going down these same old slippery stairs from one of the freezing chambers.
at donko, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 29: Let’s get a few flagons [...] After all the eagle shits tomorrow.
at when the eagle shits (n.) under eagle, n.2
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 65: He’s grogged to the eyeballs.
at to the eyeballs (adv.) under eyeball, n.2
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 116: Sam, already foggy with drink, let the seconal take over.
at foggy, adj.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 49: That half-wit giglamp ‘Spud’ McGhee.
at gig-lamps, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 29: ‘Gigglejuice’ Saunders [...] didn’t care or even know what he was drinking, providing it was of an alcoholic nature.
at giggle juice (n.) under giggle, adj.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 94: The hovering blow-flies outside the ‘glory hole’ [...] The wool was thrown into baskets. Chunks of wool-denuded meat were tossed into a barrow and [...] wheeled to the ‘glory hole’.
at glory hole, n.1
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 105: If you hadn’t grabbed me that day ten years ago I was a gone coon.
at gone coon (n.) under gone, adj.1
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 49: If you didn’t grog on regardless you could fix me up yourself.
at grog up (v.) under grog, v.1
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 65: He’s grogged to the eyeballs.
at grogged, adj.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 88: ‘Well, I’ll go to hell,’ Jack said.
at I’ll go hopping to hell under hell, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 74: You’re all to hell. The girl was upset and I better get back to her.
at all to hell under hell, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 80: I’m hitting the track.
at hit the trail (v.) under hit, v.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 92: Holy smoke! What a worry?
at holy smoke!, excl.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 115: If we hang on for a month or two we’ll be jake.
at jake, adj.1
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 133: ‘What a junk heap,’ sneered Miriam.
at junkheap (n.) under junk, n.1
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 39: You’re loaded to the ears to-night.
at loaded to the... (adj.) under loaded, adj.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 49: They all go back to the mat in the end. What’s bred in the bone comes out in the flesh. And that’s where you’ll end up. Eating dried shark and sleeping on a mat.
at go back to the mat (v.) under mat, n.
[NZ] R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 75: You’re all gone a million.
at gone a million (adj.) under million, n.
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