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The Courtship of Uncle Henry choose

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[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 25: Four of the pedos got drunk as owls.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 39: There was only hot air in his protests.
at hot air, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 74: Thompson looked as mad as a beetle.
at mad as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 75: Anyone could see he was mad as a cut snake about everything and wanting to put the boot in.
at ...a cut snake under mad as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 74: Something’s always biting him. He can’t stand a bar of her.
at not stand a bar of (v.) under bar, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 91: ‘He’s barmy!’ Logan said. ‘Mad as a snake!’.
at barmy, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 75: We can hear them barneying away out the back where they lived.
at barney, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 69: I was at Drake’s in the Haymarket seven years. Anything in this line is right into my barrel.
at right up one’s barrel (adj.) under barrel, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 26: Just sulked got drunk most nights he could had the M.O.s and the psychiatrist beat.
at beat, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 43: Isn’t he a little beaut?
at beaut, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 124: ‘You bet,’ Tom said. ‘You look real nice.’.
at you bet! (excl.) under bet, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 169: The eight pubkeepers now began doubling, then trebling, then quadrupling their orders to the breweries in the big smoke.
at Big Smoke, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 47: What the hell’s biting you?
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 46: ‘You ain’t never been so quiet before, Blondy.’ ‘That ain’t my name,’ she said.
at blondie, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 119: It’s only bludgers like Nicko who can look happy.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 25: Four of the pedos got drunk as owls one night bombo got it from the guards.
at bombo, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 75: Anyone could see he was mad as a cut snake about everything and wanting to put the boot in.
at put the boot in (v.) under boot, the, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 109: The radio’s gone bung again and I’m just fixing it.
at go bung (v.) under bung, adj.2
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 172: At twelve o’clock he had left the field and gone bush.
at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 70: I took a Captain Cook at him then and seen he had on a white coat like a dentist.
at Captain Cook, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 70: ‘Okay,’ I says. ‘I catch on. I’ll serve up the high hat talk.’.
at catch on, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 51: What was Freddy Welsh cheeking you about?
at cheek, v.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 97: A cheeky look came over his face and he chuckled to himself.
at cheeky, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 26: [She] called out the militia guard. Guard came in at the double with fixed bayonets Nolan got up clenched his fists [...] says ‘Come on, you choco bastards, come on!’.
at choco, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 25: Chrissake what a bunch for a beauty contest with those bloody pedicles sticking out like a pump handle.
at for Christ’s sake!, excl.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 48: I shouldn’t have told you to have a crack at me.
at have a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 72: She breaks out once a fortnight. Goes round the wine bars at the Cross.
at Cross, the, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 117: Nicholas Mykos owned one of the fruit shops in the town. He was a Greek and the shop was called Nicko’s. Sometimes people said, ‘We’ll meet you at the Dago’s’.
at dago, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 45: Here’s my curse upon you all, God damn your eyes!
at god-damn, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 73: She looked like something the cat brought in, with red eyes and shaky hands like my old man’s when the St. Vitus’s dance got him.
at St Vitus’s dance, n.
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