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The Man from Snowy River choose

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[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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
[Aus] ‘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.
[Aus] ‘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.
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