1892 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘A Bushman’s Song’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 127: So I saddled up my horses, and I whistled to my dog, / And I left his scabby station at the old jig-jog.at scabby, adj.2
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘The Open Steeplechase’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 72: But they both were game as pebbles — neither one would show the feather.at ...a pebble under game as..., adj.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 12: You see we were green; and we never / Had even a thought of foul play, / Though we well might have known that the clever / Division would ‘put us away’.at put away, v.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘The Man Who Was Away’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 62: I thought a lawyer ought to know — I don’t know what to say — / You’ll have to do without him, boss, for Peter is away.at away, adj.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘The Man from Ironbark’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 66: You’ve done for me! you dog, I’m beat!at beat, adj.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Saltbush Bill’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 54: Then the drover said he would fight no more and he gave his opponent best.at give someone best (v.) under best (of it), n.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Johnson’s Antidote’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 143: King Billy, of the Mooki, chieftain of the flour-bag head, / Told him, ‘Spos’n snake bite pfeller, pfeller mostly drop down dead.’.at King Billy, n.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘How the Favourite Beat Us’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 169: No doubt someone ‘blew it’, for everyone knew it.at blow, v.1
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 13: And we heard the ‘books’ calling the doubles — / A roar like the surf of the sea.at book, n.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Boss of the Admiral Lynch’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 122: The other man fetched his army and proceeded to do things brown.at do brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘An Idyll of Dandaloo’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 39: Shall we sit still, and make no fuss / While this chap climbs all over us?at climb all over (v.) under climb, v.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘How the Favourite Beat Us’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 169: I said to the jockey, ‘Now, listen, my cocky’.at cocky, n.1
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘An Idyll of Dandaloo’ Man from Snowy River (1902) 40: All the cornstalks from the West, / On ev’ry kind of moke and screw, / Came forth in all their glory drest.at cornstalk, n.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘The Man from Snowy River’ Man from Snowy River (1902) 3: So all the cracks had gathered to the fray. / All the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far.at crack, n.1
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘The Open Steeplechase’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 72: Let us mend the pace a little and we’ll see who cries a crack.at cry (a) crack (v.) under cry, v.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 13: We saw we were done like a dinner — / The odds were a thousand to one.at done like (a) dog’s dinner (adj.) under dog’s dinner, n.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘The Man Who Was Away’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 63: He’s done six months in Goulburn gaol — he’s got six more to do.at do, v.1
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Our New Horse’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 34: A gallop he had / One morning with Bluefish and Bertie, / And donkey-licked both of ’em bad.at donkey lick, v.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Our New Horse’ Man from Snowy River (1902) 31: They lost their good money on Slogan, / And fell, most uncommonly flat.at flat, adj.2
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘The Great Calamity’ Man from Snowy River (1902) 171: And when they’d drunk the beaker dry / They sang ‘We are nae fou!’.at fou, adj.1
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘How Gilbert Died’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 131: He says to his mate, ‘There are hawks abroad, / And it’s time that we went away.’.at hawk, n.1
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Shearing at Castlereagh’ Man from Snowy River (1902) 137: You clumsy-fisted mutton-heads, you’d turn a fellow sick.at mutton-head, n.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘How Gilbert Died’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 130: We’ll drink success to the roving boys, / And to hell with the black police.at to hell with...! (excl.) under hell, n.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Johnson’s Antidote’ Man from Snowy River (1902) 146: Get a pair of dogs and try it, let the snake give both a nip; / Give your dog the snakebite mixture, let the other fellow rip.at let her rip!, excl.2
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘A Bushman’s Song’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 126: He cantered home a winner, with the other one at the flog — / He’s a red-hot sort to pick up with his old jig-jog.at red-hot, adj.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve’ Man from Snowy River (1902) 10: But maybe you’re only a Johnnie / And don’t know a horse from a hoe?at johnny, n.1
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘The Man from Snowy River’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 6: And the old man gave his orders, ‘Boys, go at them from the jump, / No use to try for fancy riding now’.at jump, n.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘The Great Calamity’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 171: Let Saxons jaw / Aboot their great concerns, / But bonny Scotland beats them a’, / ‘The land o’ cakes and Burns’.at land o’ cakes (n.) under land, n.3
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 12: But, ‘dosing’ or ‘stuffing’, those fellows / Were up to each move on the board.at move, n.
1895 ‘Banjo’ Paterson ‘Johnson’s Antidote’ in Man from Snowy River (1902) 147: Stumpy was as dead as mutton, t’other dog was live and well.at dead as mutton (adj.) under mutton, n.