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A Man and His Wife choose

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[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘Old Man’s Story’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 80: I don’t go much on putting people away.
at put away, v.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘An Affair of the Heart’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 35: Certainly they were poor, and lived in a tumble-down bach with sacking nailed on to the walls to keep the wind out.
at bach, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Man & his Wife’ in A Man and His Wife (1944) 75: I’d hook off while they had their barney.
at barney, n.2
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘Good Samaritan’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 78: He said he was all to blazes [...] he was upset I could see.
at all to blazes (adj.) under blazes, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Good Boy’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 73: You’d almost believe they think I’m off my block.
at off one’s block (adj.) under block, n.1
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘The Making of a New Zealander’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 9: Use your block.
at use one’s block (v.) under block, n.1
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘I’ve Lost My Pal’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 50: George began walking over to the dog. It barked blue murder.
at blue murder, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Man & his Wife’ Man and His Wife (1944) 76: Once they were a bit stonkered the boys would want to have a bo-peep at the bird while he was asleep.
at bo-peep, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Great Day’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 26: Pull her round a bit with the left, Fred said. And there’s no need to bust your boiler.
at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Good Boy’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 71: It’s a fact that Paddy ran a book.
at book, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘Cow-pats’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 22: He stuck them into a cow-pat that had just been dropped, and he said it made his feet feel bosker and warm.
at bosker, adj.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘Three Men’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 69: I was so hot I had to fan myself with a hanky, and Hilda saw me and said I must be getting breezy.
at breezy, adj.2
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘White Man’s Burden’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 15: He told me he was keeping strictly off the hops. If you once went on the bust in a place like this it was good-bye McGinnis, he said.
at on the bust under bust, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Pair of Socks’ A Man and His Wife (1944) 64: As for Bill, he was the hardest case bloke you ever came across.
at hard-case, adj.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘White Man’s Burden’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 15: If you once went on the bust in a place like this it was good-bye McGinnis.
at goodbye Charlie, phr.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘Old Man’s Story’ A Man and His Wife (1944) 81: He was no chicken, in his fifties perhaps.
at chicken, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Man and His Wife (1944) 75: We all chipped in to say he was a dirty old man.
at chip in, v.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Great Day’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 28: Mary and I used to be great cobbers.
at cobber, n.2
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘Cow-pats’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 22: My father was a cow-cocky, but he couldn’t make cow-cockying pay.
at cow cocky (n.) under cow, n.1
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Good Boy’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 73: She cracked on that I was the only fellow she was going with but I found her out.
at crack on, v.2
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Good Boy’ in Man And His Wife (1944) 71: They said it was a crook business right through like they say all racing is.
at crook, adj.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Pair of Socks’ in A Man and His Wife (1944) 64: Struth, he was a dag.
at dag, n.2
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘The Making of a New Zealander’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 10: The man was one of two young Dallies who ran an orchard.
at Dally, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Man and his Wife’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 75: We all chipped in to say he was a dirty old man, and it was no wonder his missis had kicked him out.
at dirty old man, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘An Englishwoman Abroad’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 56: They were young, quite nice looking in their own way, done up to the nines.
at done up, adj.2
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘They Gave Her a Rise’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 19: I’m a Doolan myself, and Mrs. Bowman was always down on the churches.
at doolan, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘They Gave Her a Rise’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 19: I’m a Doolan myself, and Mrs. Bowman was always down on the churches.
at down (up)on under down, adv.2
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘A Pair of Socks’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 65: Every chance he got he’d pick on me and go off pop.
at go off, v.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘Old Man’s Story’ A Man and His Wife (1944) 80: I don’t go much on putting people away.
at go, v.
[NZ] F. Sargeson ‘I’ve Lost My Pal’ in A Man And His Wife (1944) 50: Of course George is going up for it.
at go up, v.2
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