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Call Me When the Cross Turns Over choose

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[Aus] L. Glassop Call me When the Cross Turns Over 199: In the end he was blood from head to hocks and all over the place like a mad woman’s custard.
at all over the place like a mad woman’s shit, phr.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 69: The sheila had him in her sights because she thought he was a bit of all right.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 225: While I’m slogging away like an alec at Yampi she’d bedded down with a bullet-headed by-blow.
at alec, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over 64: ‘You sweet, Barbie?’ ‘All serene,’ she told him.
at all serene, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 101: Gord, where’s your old poppalorum?
at -alorum, sfx
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me when the Cross Turns Over (1958) 101: Barbie, playing ampster, went up and bought a bottle [...] Others followed to buy.
at ampster, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 31: Sure you wouldn’t like a drop of sweetness and light?
at sweetness and light, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 48: I’m happy as a dog with a bellyful of soup and a streetful of lamp-posts.
at ...a dog with two tails under happy as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 12: I’m sick, Snow, sick as a bloody dog.
at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 57: ‘It’s one o’clock, Bow-tie,’ Barbie reminded him seriously. ‘Oh!’ he said, and did up the button on his fly.
at it’s one o’clock (at the button factory), phr.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 24: Marriage, my fat aunt!
at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 212: I’m sick as a dog and mad as a meat-axe.
at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 113: O.K., O.K., don’t have a baby. I’m coming.
at have a baby (v.) under baby, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 110: A sort of bach, you know. Everyone calls it the Cubby.
at bach, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 72: I’ll come after the quacks have had a shot at me. They can cut me about [...] long as they leave me my pants and bolicks.
at ballocks, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 52: I got the Barcoo spews [...] A cow of a thing.
at Barcoo spew (n.) under Barcoo, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 225: While I’m slogging away like an alec at Yampi she’d bedded down with a bullet-headed by-blow.
at bed, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 16: He’s sick with the grog, too. Looks like he’s been on a bender.
at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 25: Hey, the Bible-banger’s here!
at bible-banger (n.) under bible, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 75: What’s the big idea, coming to bludge on us?
at what’s the (big) idea?, phr.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 122: Wait till I eat my birdseed.
at birdseed, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 33: A sheila comes up to me [...] and puts the bit on me because she’s hard up.
at put the bit on (v.) under bit, n.3
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 113: They’ve put honey on Chloe’s [a nude woman in a painting] blossom again. Look! Strike me fat, I could spit tacks.
at blossom, n.3
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 214: One minute swinging your weight around [...] the next blowing through like a squib.
at blow, v.1
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 75: What’s the big idea, coming the bludge on us.
at bludge, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over 75: What’s the big idea, coming the bludge on us?
at come the bludge on (v.) under bludger, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 60: The world’s full of no-goods – bludgers, sneaks and thieves.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 182: I’m a blue duck as far as you’re concerned. I’m a dud.
at blue duck (n.) under blue, adj.1
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 235: It put the breeze up me.
at get the breeze up (v.) under breeze, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 48: Thirsty weather, this. Give you the jimmy brits.
at Jimmy Britts, n.
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