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The Tramp and Other Stories choose

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[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 154: Probably there might have been other people in the lane—women and men and probably a down-and-out rooting around in a garbage-tin.
at down-and-out, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 24: Mad as hatters most of them.
at ...a hatter under mad as..., adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 64: ‘You know what he is like with women,’ she said. ‘Bah!’ he muttered, ‘a few housemaids from the farm!’.
at bah!, excl.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 149: I’ve got to tell the story of how this boy got two years in clink in my own way—otherwise I’ll get all balled up.
at balled-up, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 51: He had barked the back of his right hand when he had fallen. Little spots of blood had oozed out.
at bark, v.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 25: Making us into a basher-gang!
at basher, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 23: Blast the swaggies!
at blast, v.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 49: Christ all bloody mighty! The little bitch!
at Christ almighty! (excl.) under Christ, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 45: Thank Christ that’s over.
at thank Christ, phr.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 6: Still, he’ll chuck in a few pounds!
at chuck in, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 45: By lunch-time there was only a small oblong island of unstripped crop and he ate his sandwiches hurriedly. ‘You should cut out in less than an hour,’ the farmer said to him.
at cut out, v.3
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 86: There’s the bar and the travellers — and what the girls make — you bet she gets a cut out of that.
at cut, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 52: He put his hand on the drunk’s shoulder and pushed. [...] ‘’Ere, cut that out!’ one of the drunken men cried.
at cut that out! (excl.) under cut out, v.3
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 144: Some of these people have been trying to put the dirt into me!
at dirt, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 79: Dopey ‘Chook’ is late again.
at dopey, adj.2
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 153: She had been at the game for years.
at game, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 83: ‘Did you get that stink?’ ‘I got it,’ the other said.
at get, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 86: There’s the bar and the travellers — and what the girls make — you bet she gets a cut out of that.
at girl, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 98: Serve you right if you come a ‘gutzer’!
at gutser, n.2
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 121: But hang it—you know—there were others.
at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 137: I gave that fellow a hidin’, small as I was compared with him.
at hiding, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 23: A lousy one-horse town! God, what a hole! I wouldn’t live here for a thousand a year.
at hole, n.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 11: I was taken in, sports. The lyin’ sod!
at take in, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 92: He wanted to kill this thing within him.
at kill, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 48: ‘When do you knock off?’ ‘Six. You don’t catch me serving after hours. His nibs can do that.’.
at knock off, v.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 176: ‘You come inside,’ she said, ‘if you get cold — won’t you, Faither?’ They always addressed each other in this way. ‘Yes, Moither,’ the old man said.
at mother, n.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 49: Bloody poor way of spendin’ the afternoon . . . keepin’ on the water-waggon . . . she’ll have to make up for mucking my afternoon.
at muck, v.1
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 5: Can he fight? My bloody oath he can!
at my bloody oath! (excl.) under my oath!, excl.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 49: He’s real nasty when he’s drunk. If I had turned him down now he’d have gone drinking and getting nasty and then we’d have had some trouble.
at nasty, adj.
[Aus] D. Stivens Tramp and Other Stories 48: ‘When do you knock off?’ ‘Six. You don’t catch me serving after hours. His nibs can do that.’.
at his nibs (n.) under nibs, n.
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