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The Scholarly Mouse and Other Tales choose

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[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 15: ‘All my eye!’ said the old mouse.
at all my eye, phr.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 65: He turned in from the road and smoked up the track at a hell of a bat.
at bat, n.3
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 45: ‘Damn!’ cried Mr Lotus. ‘Botheration!’ said Mrs Lotus.
at botheration!, excl.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 47: Swimming is best in the buff.
at buff, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 2: The cabby was so shocked at hearing a dog speak he ran his cab up on the footpath.
at cabby, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 67: [He] went off with the rag, at his fast clip.
at clip, n.3
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 61: That’s a bit of a curly one, bud.
at curly one (n.) under curly, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 78: My mother cut up when she heard. ‘Wasting money when it could have gone into the house.’.
at cut up, v.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 100: By dang! [...] Dang me, no!
at dang, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 100: By dang! [...] Dang me, no!
at dang!, excl.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 66: He was a real grafter and he dug holes about three times as fast as we did, though we weren’t the ones to lie down on the job.
at lay down (on one’s/the job) (v.) under lay down, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 65: As he got closer, we saw he was too tall to be a Pong or an Eyetoe.
at eyeto, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 65: It didn’t sound like English to us but more like Pong yabber or Eyetoe or Dago gibberish.
at eyeto, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 45: ‘What gives?’ he cried happily. ‘Lead me to a feed—I always work up an appetite in space.’.
at feed, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 17: A greyhound flummoxed me out of eight and a half.
at flummox, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 45: ‘What gives?’ he cried happily. ‘Lead me to a feed — I always work up an appetite in space.’.
at what gives? under give, v.3
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 66: He was a real grafter and he dug holes about three times as fast as we did, though we weren’t the ones to lie down on the job.
at grafter, n.2
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 64: Has your boss a wife, bud? [...] You could make him mad if you hung your hat up there.
at hang one’s hat up (v.) under hang, v.2
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 67: [He] was still lamming his bar home.
at lam, v.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 16: [He] fell over on his back with funk, mizzled out the door, out of the house and kept on going.
at mizzle, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 66–7: The boss muttered something about bloody nuisances and mooched off.
at mooch, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 32: Can’t be much in it if those nitwits can do it.
at nitwit, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 46: Look a bit peaky, both of you. I’ll take you in hand. Long bouncy walks for both of you will be the cure.
at peaky, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 65: As he got closer, we saw he was too tall to be a Pong or an Eyetoe [...] It didn’t sound like English to us but more like Pong yabber or Eyetoe or Dago gibberish.
at pong, n.2
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 50: I’m sick to death of visitors...push off!
at push off (v.) under push, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 66: Down each cheek he wore long side-levers but he might have had something wrong with his skin.
at side levers (n.) under side, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 65: He turned in from the road and smoked up the track at a hell of a bat.
at smoke, v.2
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 1: ‘Excuse me, but I forgot this,’ he said, snaffling the bone and bolting outside again.
at snaffle, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 67: We had a hard squiz at the back of his neck.
at squiz, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 76: I don’t want to swank it.
at swank, v.
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