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‘Done for the Double’ Three Elephant Power 135: ‘I moskenoed his block and tackle, and blued it in the school.’ In other words, he had pawned the boy’s watch and chain, and had lost the proceeds at pitch and toss.at block and tackle, n.1
‘Done for the Double’ Three Elephant Power 135: ‘I moskenoed his block and tackle, and blued it in the school.’ In other words, he had pawned the boy’s watch and chain, and had lost the proceeds at pitch and toss. ‘His Masterpiece’ in Three Elephant Power 123: ‘Acres be d——d!’ Billy would scornfully reply; [...] ‘D’ye think we were blanked cockatoo selectors!’.at blanked, adj.
‘Done for the Double’ in Three Elephant Power 135: ‘I moskenoed his block and tackle, and blued it in the school.’ In other words, he had pawned the boy’s watch and chain, and had lost the proceeds at pitch and toss.at blew, v.2
‘Done for the Double’ Three Elephant Power 131: Time and again he had gone out to race when, to use William’s own words, it was a blue duck for Bill’s chance of keeping afloat.at blue duck (n.) under blue, adj.1
‘The Merino Sheep’ in Three Elephant Power 36: Then there are loud whistlings and oaths, and calls for Rover and Bluey.at bluey, n.1
‘Concerning a Steeplechase Rider’ in Three Elephant Power 107: At last they cannot ride at all without a regular cargo of alcohol on board.at on board (adv.) under board, n.1
‘The Downfall of Mulligan’s’ in Three Elephant Power 61: The boys listened with a bored air and reckoned that [...] the priest would have learnt that they were well able to look after themselves.at boys, the, n.
‘Downfall of Mulligan’s’ in Three Elephant Power 64: Pop it down, gents! Pop it down! If you don’t put down a brick you can’t pick up a castle!at brick, n.
‘Three Elephant Power’ in Three Elephant Power 2: Henery was a bushwacker, but clean mad on motorin’.at bushwhacker, n.1
‘White-when-he’s-wanted’ in Three Elephant Power 51: The man was monosyllabic to a degree, as the real bushmen generally are. It is only the rowdy and the town-bushy that are fluent of speech.at bushy, n.1
‘The Oracle’ in Three Elephant Power 17: Go on, Jimmy! Rub it into him! Belt him! It’s a cake-walk! A cake-walk!at cakewalk, n.
‘Done for the Double’ Three Elephant Power 132: He told him that the pony belonged to a Methodist clergyman, who used to drive him in a ‘shay’.at chay, n.
‘The Downfall of Mulligan’s’ Three Elephant Power 62: the signal was passed round to ’put the cross on’.at put the cross on (v.) under cross, n.1
‘The Oracle’ in Three Elephant Power 12: They’s only a lot o’ cuddies, any ’ow.at cuddy, n.1
‘Sitting in Judgement’ in Three Elephant Power 93: The rider let daylight into him with his spurs.at let the daylight into/through (v.) under daylight, n.1
‘Done for the Double’ in Three Elephant Power 130: His motto was, ‘Up and be doing — somebody’.at do, v.1
‘Three Elephant Power’ in Three Elephant Power 3: One of these little eight-horse rubby-dubbys that go strugglin’ up ’ills with a death-rattle in its throat, and all the people in buggies passin’ it.at rubby-dubby, n.
‘White-when-he’s-wanted’ in Three Elephant Power 49: A hard-headed old Scotchman known as ‘four-eyed M’Gregor’, because he wore spectacles.at four-eyed, adj.
‘The Downfall of Mulligan’s’ Three Elephant Power 60: They were in high feather, having just won a lot of money from a young Englishman at pigeon-shooting.at in high feather under feather, n.
‘Three Elephant Power’ in Three Elephant Power 1: Barring a tendency to flash driving, and a delight in persecuting slow cars by driving just in front of them [...] he was a respectable member of society.at flash, adj.
‘The Dog — as a Sportsman’ in Three Elephant Power 104: A fluky hit turns the scale in his favour.at fluky, adj.
‘Victor Second’ in Three Elephant Power 115: The populace immediately went for him with stones, bottles, and other missiles, and he had to scratch gravel to save his life.at scratch (the) gravel (v.) under gravel, n.
‘Victor Second’ in Three Elephant Power 114: It looked a guinea to a gooseberry that some of them would fall on him.at guinea to a gooseberry (n.) under guinea, n.2
‘Three Elephant Power’ in Three Elephant Power 2: A queer cove this Henery was — half mad, I think, but the best hand with a car ever I see.at hand, n.1
‘The Cast-iron Canvasser’ in Three Elephant Power 29: The sergeant knew what was the matter; it was a man in the horrors, a common enough spectacle at Ninemile.at horrors, the, n.
‘The Cast-iron Canvasser’ in Three Elephant Power 21: In fact, it was altogether too hot for the canvassers, and they came in [...] to tender their resignations.at hot, adj.
‘The Downfall of Mulligan’s’ in Three Elephant Power 61: If ye go bettin’ ye will be took in wid thim bookmakers.at take in, v.
‘Victor Second’ in Three Elephant Power 114: We were fairly in it and no mistake.at in it, adj.
‘The Cast-iron Canvasser’ in Three Elephant Power 23: He fetches his right hand round with a swipe that’ll knock them into the middle of next week.at knock into the middle of next week (v.) under knock into, v.
‘His Masterpiece’ in Three Elephant Power 125: Whoop! Before you could say Jack Robertson, that thousand head of cattle were on their feet.at before one can say Jack Robinson under Jack Robinson, n.
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