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[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 154: I thought he was going to throw a sixer. [Ibid.] 272: I nearly chucked a sixer and didn’t take it at first.
at chuck a sixer, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett (1959) 98: Jimmy Brockett is about as popular with Sadie's mother as a pork chop in a synagogue, but I didn't lose any sleep over it.
at as popular as a pork chop at a Jewish wedding under pork chop at a Jewish wedding, phr.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 235: I felt as mopey as a wet hen and about four-thirty I called it a day and went off to the club.
at mopey as a wet hen, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 17: The boy had his ears back for the ten bob I promised him. [...] I followed the kid out of the lounge, slipped him the half-note.
at half a note, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 31: Pearl comes over close to me and starts mucking around. [Ibid.] 192: Since I’d had young Jimmy to interest me, I hadn’t done as much mucking about as before. But I liked a bit of horizontal exercise as much as the next bloke.
at muck about, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 30: I used to knock about with a bloke called Joe Rankin.
at knock about, v.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 21: I was thinking about Ziegler and whether my ace would be good enough.
at ace, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 124: You got sweet F.A. from that crowd.
at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 219: What he knew about education was F.A.
at fanny adams, n.2
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 30: It didn’t add up though with what I’d heard about these artists, because though she had come around to have a drink in my flat, I hadn’t even been able to kiss her.
at add up, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 62: When a smart alec called one of my ushers a poofter one night I was into him like a shot. I hit him on the chin and he went stern over appetite.
at smart aleck, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 91: That was all Sir Garnet with me, except that I had the breeze up that Ziegler might do his block.
at all Sir Garnet, phr.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 46: They were all over him when he started on the oysters.
at all over, adj.2
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 95: Just as I thought, it was all over bar the shouting.
at all over bar the shouting, phr.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 230: Jerry said that Dubois’ old man had been an amen snorter, but that the kid had gone all atheist.
at amen-snorter (n.) under amen, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 140: What’s up, boss? Fallen out with the trouble and strife?
at trouble and strife, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 34: I liked her when she laughed. I knew then she had me by the short hairs. [Ibid.] 242: I’d have liked to take a poke at him but he had me by the wool.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 17: That two hundred quid was running me pretty short and here he was trying to get me to raise the ante.
at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 232: He tried to smooth me out, but I wasn’t having any.
at not having any, phr.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 104: I’d been around, so I stopped and just talked for a bit. But when I tried again she set up a yelp.
at have been around, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 178: I’ve got a good mind to kick your arse.
at kick someone’s arse under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 32: Joe was as mad as a hornet at first when I let slip about Pearl and me.
at ...a hornet under mad as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 28: As soon as I saw the sporting pages in the last papers I was happy as a box of birds.
at ...(a box of) birds under happy as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 227: I’d only seen her about three times in the last four or five years. Mostly, she was cold as a polar bear’s behind.
at ...a polar bear’s behind under cold as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 105: I got as mad as a cut snake then.
at ...a cut snake under mad as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 112: Nine-thirty in the morning saw me as busy as a one-armed man with the itch.
at busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 11: ‘You don’t look like an Australian but you talk like one.’ ‘Me, not an Aussie?’.
at Aussie, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 11: She was good-looking with blue eyes and fair hair. Most of the pubs had old battle-axes.
at battle-axe, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 81: I was down ten quid until the last race, when Firefly came home and saved the bacon, and I went home twelve notes up.
at save someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 289: Dubois has had the whole box of tricks — high school and university.
at whole bag of tricks, the, n.
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