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[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 165: This isn’t the rubblededub. This is the pie-cart.
at rub-a-dub, n.2
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 225: The band playing [...] to the tune of we won’t be buggered about about we won’t be buggered about but we were.
at bugger about, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 203: ‘Didn’t know you had any friends,’ he says in his smart-alec way.
at smart-aleck, adj.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 224: Why don’t they tell the truth? Travel is damn-all.
at damn-all, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 44: I thought ya was chief cook and bottle-washer at base.
at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 225: The Blue Light and the doc sourly on the short-arm inspection.
at short-arm inspection (n.) under short arm, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 43: Mad as a maggot. Ya shoulda married her.
at ...a maggot under mad as..., adj.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 147: I been busy as a one-armed paper-hanger.
at busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
[NZ] (con. 1940s) G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 66: What the bloody hell ya comin at he said. [Ibid.] 212: Here, Sefton. What are you coming at?
at come at, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 197: Wizard show. Chocks away. Here we go, old boy.
at chocks away!, excl.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 231: He went mad and they shot him mad as a meat axe.
at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 45: I been havin a bad trot. In hospital up north.
at bad trot (n.) under bad, adj.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 60: Not a bad day, eh? One outta the box.
at one out of the bag, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 205: Balls to that lurk.
at balls to...! (excl.) under balls!, excl.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 23: I was shikkered to beat the band.
at to beat the band (adv.) under band, n.2
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 165: I’m all right I tell ya. Right as a bank.
at right as a bank (adj.) under bank, n.1
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 226: Page after page bashed out on the portable.
at bash out (v.) under bash, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 187: The boys are getting on the bash.
at on the bash under bash, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 10: Heaving the stand planks into the water when we tired of bombs from the side and bellyfloppers from the board.
at bellyflop, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 144: ‘How’s yaself?’ ‘Boxa birds,’ he tells me with a wink.
at box of birds, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 192: I couldn’t go back to the goods shed either. They wouldn’t have me after the black I put up.
at black, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 204: Bloody salesmen. Shouting at us over the radio [...] and filling newspapers up with their blah blah blah.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 227: Have a blow. No sense bustin yaself.
at blow, n.3
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 47: Trying to bludge in on their party he was.
at bludge, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 345: ‘Well, in ya go says Bob Munro,’ he toasts and we drink some slowly.
at in you go says bob munro, phr.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 14: Racing back to town in a Beat-up Bomb.
at bomb, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 91: Got the pricker with me. Slingin off at me he was. You’re up the boo-ay he told me.
at up the boohai (adv.) under booai, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 83: People thought he was crackers or boozed-up at first.
at boozed, adj.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 224: Taffy was always poking the borax at the queers.
at poke (the) borak (v.) under borak, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 179: Give me the Gurkhas any day. They’re bloody bottlers. They love it.
at bottler, n.1
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