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[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 94: ’Twouldn’t be all skittles and beer, Pat, if we woke some night to find spears sticking into us.
at all beer and skittles, phr.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 262: The jackshays were boiled and under the soothing influence of ‘post and rail’ [...] their ordinary natures resumed control.
at post-and-rail (tea), n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 164: He’s a beggar to graft, an’ strong as a horse.
at beggar for (n.) under beggar, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 229: Cheese your borack.
at borak, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 312: ’Pon my word, you’ the funniest man I’ve met: a real bush Don Quixote.
at bush, adj.1
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 216: ‘Must ’ave something to eat, Boss [...] an’ this yer cartwheel,’ pointing to the dough, ‘will keep us goin’ a day or two.’.
at cartwheel, n.1
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 143: They were now sober and in their right minds. They [...] realised how dearly they had paid for ‘wetting their whistle.’ [...] ‘’Tis whipping the cat we are,’ said McDermott.
at whip the cat, v.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 33: A notorious gang of Queensland cattle duffers .
at cattle-duffer, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 33: Details of crimes such as [...] bushranging exploits, cattle duffing feats and pugilistic encounters.
at cattle-duffing, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 14: Take that steel pipe out of his clapper trap.
at clapper-trap (n.) under clapper, n.1
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 202: They both laughed and lit their short clays for a farewell smoke.
at clay, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 318: He’s an awful fool, and – and not exactly the clean potato.
at clean potato (n.) under clean, adj.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 163: ’Arry Figg ’ad the biggest put-away of any chap I ever knew. ’E was always clemmin’.
at clem, v.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 228: Well, old man, as it’s the bloomin’ cobbler [...] keep it .
at cobbler, n.1
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 216: Redgum says you’re ‘a bit of good stuff, though you are a croweater’.
at crow-eater (n.) under crow, n.2
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 55: A crusty old farmer stood on the bank shaking his fist at me .
at crusty, adj.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 100: Farmer, you’re a real good hand at spinning a cuffer.
at cuffer, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 224: He’s got the Darling Pea right enough. Mad as a hatter.
at Darling pea (n.) under Darling, adj.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 94: The grilled chops and ‘beggars-on-the-coals’.
at devil-on-the-coals (n.) under devil, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 198: Got a new dover, have you? What’s the brand?
at dover, n.1
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 314: The ‘lambing-down’ process was going on merrily. Liquor was flowing freely at a shilling a nobbler.
at lamb down, v.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 88: A man is pretty full when he is elevated.
at elevated, adj.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 256: If we are goin’ to yard the niggers in the Tooramurra Hole, we must have whips [...] how could we cut out the blacks without floggers?
at flogger, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 132: Not Mickey the Dart? Yes? Good iron!
at good iron! (excl.) under good, adj.1
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 246: He’ll scent a black-fellow as far as any other prad ’ull smell a camel. He’s great on niggers, is Black Arrow.
at great, adj.1
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushmen All 20: Why the bloomin’ traps [...] would have the darbies on us in no time. See any green?
at see any green (in my eye)? under green, n.1
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 135: They got a hair, in fact several hairs.
at hair, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 262: The jackshays were boiled and under the soothing influence of ‘post and rail’ [...] their ordinary natures resumed control.
at jack shea, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 56: Some day you’ll dance off a plank and on to nothing. Jack Ketch’ll teach you a new step.
at Jack Ketch, n.
[Aus] G. Seagram Bushman All 268: These granite walls are more to my taste; this is the stone-jug for me.
at stone jug, n.1
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