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[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 116: ‘Half a mo, Father,’ Pretty Joey said. ‘Show us that again for a minute.’.
at half a mo, phr.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 27: He had poor Tommy madder than a woodheap.
at madder than a woodheap, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 176: It’s all so simple and above board.
at above board, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 38: She wants to string along. Not half an hour ago she come in here and says I got to take her away with me.
at string (along), v.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 219: He’d done it himself with the down-and-outers when he was flush.
at down-and-outer, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 114: The old hen would be either going to church or to the ham-and-beef for a headache powder.
at ham and beef, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 44: She had knocked around and been knocked around.
at knock around, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 41: Shove it up your black dot.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 21: You’d have more oscar in your kick now than the Prime Minister himself.
at Oscar (Asche), n.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 160: You shouldn’t give back-slack, either—not you. It’s dangerous.
at backslack (n.) under back, adj.2
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 186: If we stick together and battle along helping one another we’ll be okay.
at battle, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 170: She’s cashed her chips, that old battler, he thought. A two-bob touch around the corner, and who’d want to touch her?
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 114: She’s a beaut. Nat Gould at his best. I’ll lend it to you when I’m finished.
at beaut, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 96: Suddenly a billy-cart screeched at his nerves, and he jerked around to see it, driven by a nine-year-old freak.
at billy-cart, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 20: He saw a half-caste girl go down the yard [...] ‘Who’s the charcoal blonde?’ [...] ‘One of the housemaids here. Not bad. is she?’.
at bitumen blonde, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 145: And he got you so you lost your block and took to him and done for him.
at do one’s block (v.) under block, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 202: That’s when I see this fly-blown old fowlhouse going the knock on my money.
at fly-blown, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 18: A rangy old man came in wearing a two-bob suit, the dog-eared lapels matching his dolorous eyes.
at two-bob, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 159: He went on merrily telling Jazzer what a bonzer sheila Mumsy was.
at bonzer, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 30: The white women who never drew the colour-line when the black or brindle had money to throw about.
at brindle, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 164: He roared laughing and gave her a slap on the seat. ‘The biggest bronza in the world-and just think, you’re all mine.’.
at bronze, n.2
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 56: I came here to get the truth out of you, and no bull.
at bull, n.6
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 186: Marty and Sadie are not going to like it when you give them the bullet.
at give someone the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 114: What’s the time? My ticker’s gone bung.
at go bung (v.) under bung, adj.2
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 200: One of these days when I’m real cashed up like, I’m gonna get myself one of them trombones.
at cashed up, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 37: She catfooted slowly into the room.
at cat-foot, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 172: What can he do, the silly old cheese?
at cheese, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 170: She’s cashed her chips, that old battler, he thought. A two-bob touch around the corner, and who’d want to touch her?
at cash in one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 152: He remembered the few harlots Big Lew had brought up there, and he remembered him like that when he brought up that old chromo from Campbell Street.
at chromo, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Big Smoke 183: ‘How’s your mother? Any better?’ ‘Not too clever, but she’ll be right.’.
at clever, adj.
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