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The Shiralee choose

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[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 180: I suppose it doesn’t matter a damn, anyway.
at not matter a damn, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 29: ‘What’s at Millie?’ ‘Bugger-all.’.
at bugger all, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 96: All they could do was [...] string him a line of heifer dust as long as your arm.
at string (along), v.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 37: The child was on his hammer from the moment he woke.
at on someone’s hammer (and tack) under hammer and tack, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 94: A circular detailing the merits of So-and-so’s combs and cutters.
at so-and-so, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 141: I’m not asking for charity [...] Just a little help on appro.
at on appro (adv.) under appro, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 138: You’d be a good mate to knock round with.
at knock around, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 142: Tin-bum, they call me. I get on to opal [...] wherever I sink a shaft.
at tin-arse, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 19: Just like them [...] to drop on to the arse-end of Australia to start their maiden journey.
at arse-end, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 89: It had an arsy-versy look about it to him.
at arsey-varsey, phr.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 86: Full as a boot and happy as Larry.
at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 132: I could have kicked him in the ask-no-questions a dozen times a day.
at ask-no-questions, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 122: He’d come the smoodge to the women for a bit of a love-up. Mad bee.
at b, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 29: Don’t offer me money [...] I mightn’t knock it back.
at knock back, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 66: They were barber’s cats, all wind and water.
at barber’s cat (n.) under barber, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 172: Not a bad old cow [...] but, hell, what an ear-basher.
at ear-basher, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 82: You old bastard! Where did you spring—.
at old bastard (n.) under bastard, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 80: A friend of yours that made good off his own bat.
at off one’s own bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 78: Slippery Dick was making the concession of one battler to another.
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 91: There’d be no belly-aches with that mob.
at bellyache, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 122: I wanted like billy-o to shake him off, but I didn’t know how.
at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 220: He had a blinker on the right eye now.
at blinker, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 82: Where’d you blow in from, Snooker?
at blow in, v.2
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 140: Blow me down, wonders’ll never cease.
at blow me down!, excl.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 86: They’ll all be there. Bluey Green?
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 73: The old bone-shaker didn’t improve their hearing.
at bone-shaker (n.) under bone, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 173: You don’t know what a boneyard is [...] It’s where they put people when they get dead.
at boneyard, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 125: That boong piece at the station — you had your peepers on her yet?
at boong, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 70: He wasn’t the type to put the boot in later, to hold a grudge in perpetuity. [Ibid.] 132: Fate was certainly laying in the boot; piling it on.
at put the boot in (v.) under boot, the, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Shiralee 58: Coming at me with a bottle. Putting the bounce into me.
at put the bounce into/on (v.) under bounce, n.1
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