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[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 71: It’s been a beaut evening.
at beaut, adj.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 23: I put up a blue right away by ordering a pink gin.
at blue, n.1
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 55: Come down and see it before he pulls the bung out.
at pull the bung out (v.) under bung, n.2
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 65: We may be going to cop it in June, for all that anybody knows.
at cop it, v.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 205: To do her dirt for three month’s pleasure and nothing at the end of it – well [...] I may be a loose woman, but I don’t know that I’m all that loose.
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 270: I’d like to catch one fish [...] Even if it’s such a dud one that we put it back.
at dud, adj.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 35: You’ll probably be telling everyone about it later on this evening when you’re a bit full.
at full, adj.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 156: The spare [...] I suppose they give it to you in case you lose one of them, or funk it.
at funk, v.2
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 100: Or have you had him keel-hauled for insubordination since we met?
at keel-haul, v.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 194: He glanced at the carton of Lucky Strikes, but the captain was right, or course; they would be hot.
at hot, adj.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 56: I’ve got a mouth like the bottom of the parrot’s cage.
at have a mouth like the bottom of a birdcage (v.) under mouth, n.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 237: ‘I’ve got nothing to give away on you muggers,’ he said, grinning.
at mugger, n.3
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 70: She’s absolutely nuts on gardening.
at nuts on, adj.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 245: Her first narcissi were in bloom, and the daffodils behind them were already showing flower buds. ‘They’re going to be a picture,’ she said happily.
at picture, n.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 202: It’s so piggy here in the winter – nothing but rain and gales.
at piggy, adj.
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 252: You’re telling me the bloody rabbit’s going to put it across us, after all?
at put it across (v.) under put, v.1
[Aus] ‘Neville Shute’ On the Beach 272: Then I got into this night fishing, and that’s really something.
at something, n.
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