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Shearer’s Colt 90: He’s a fine chap, but he can’t carry too much and when he gets a few in he wants to fight somebody.at few, a, n.
Shearer’s Colt 90: He’s a fine chap, but he can’t carry too much and when he gets a few in he wants to fight somebody. Shearer’s Colt 179: ‘Searchlight’ of the Racing Omniscient said that the horse was a false alarm and couldn’t beat a carpet.at false alarm, n.1
Shearer’s Colt 180: Being absolutely impervious to shocks, Mr Manasses never batted an eyelid.at not bat an eye(lid), v.
Shearer’s Colt 74: ‘By crikey, Moira,’ said the black, ‘that mare game all same bulldog ant.’.at ...an ant under game as..., adj.
Shearer’s Colt 121: A lot of ’em think this horse can’t sprint, so they’ll run it as slow as they can and try to beat him in the run home. That’s right into my barrow.at into one’s barrow under barrow, n.
Shearer’s Colt 141: Lady Seawood shook her head. ‘Beats me,’ she said.at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
Shearer’s Colt 29: I hadn’t hardly rung the bell at this here racing before I got pinched.at ring the bell (v.) under bell, n.1
Shearer’s Colt 164: He heard one of the big shots say he’d give five thousand dollars.at big shot, n.
Shearer’s Colt 213: It was generally voted that if Crusader should ‘blow up’ the Frenchman might beat the Australian horse over two miles.at blow up, v.1
Shearer’s Colt 48: He said that be blowed for a yarn, how could any man eat two pounds worth of grub at one sitting!at blowed, adj.1
Shearer’s Colt 209: I’ll put a guard of bluejackets three deep all round the fence.at bluejacket, n.
Shearer’s Colt 123: All red-haired men are called ‘Bluey’ in Australia for some reason or other.at bluey, n.1
Shearer’s Colt 93: ‘That’s a bobby-dazzler of a colt,’ said Fred.at bobby-dazzler, n.1
Shearer’s Colt 101: I hope that in the course of your — er — ha — hum duties as boozehound — I beg your pardon, the slang phrase slipped out accidentally — as entertainment officer for this Company.at booze-hound (n.) under booze, n.
Shearer’s Colt 127: We’d laugh our heads off if we left a goldmine behind us and went away and bottomed on a duffer.at bottom, v.
Shearer’s Colt 9: You go and breast him.at breast (up to), v.
Shearer’s Colt 201: See him breeze when that butcher boy hit him?at breeze, v.1
Shearer’s Colt 41: A pal of mine had a horse that he had to sell, stone-broke you know.at stone broke, adj.
Shearer’s Colt 30: He [...] had fought a professional bruiser with bare knuckles.at bruiser, n.
Shearer’s Colt 146: If I spend too much money the Empire Pastoral might buck.at buck, v.2
Shearer’s Colt 179: He was bustin’ himself bettin’, and I pulled ’im out of it.at bust, v.1
Shearer’s Colt 92: If we invite the wrong chappies to Government House, why, yours truly gets it in the neck.at chappie, n.
Shearer’s Colt 183: ‘He’s a cheese champion dis Australian hoss,’ he said. ‘Why worry about heem? Even if we gave heem de fast stuff he wouldn’t beat de clerk o’ de course.’.at cheese champion (n.) under cheese, n.1
Shearer’s Colt 7: He looks like a shearer that’s made a cheque, and it wouldn’t be too hard to get it off him.at chequed up (adj.) under cheque, n.
Shearer’s Colt 51: If a shed runs for two hours without somebody gettin’ chipped [faulted for bad shearing] they say ‘twelve o’clock and not a word said’.at chip, v.1
Shearer’s Colt 119: Before Red Fred could answer Mr Noall chipped in.at chip in, v.
Shearer’s Colt 52: He started smuggling opium and working it back to the blacks and Chows up in the Territory.at Chow, n.
Shearer’s Colt 164: I ain’t going to talk Chow talk to you any more. You savvy English all right.at Chow, adj.
Shearer’s Colt 51: I was down at the track at daylight this mornin’ watchin’ her gallop and she cleaned up the black horse from Lost River, like as he was a hack.at clean up, v.
Shearer’s Colt 44: Whadda you think of that, you cows?at cow, n.1
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