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Sun. Tel. 19 Mar. 9/1: He encountered the dishy St. Tropezienne on his holiday plane.at dishy, adj.1
Sun. Tel. 19 Mar. 9/1: He encountered the dishy St. Tropezienne on his holiday plane. Sun. Tel. 16 Mar. 3/3: (headline) The ‘gin and Jag’ rebels [OED].at gin and Jag, adj.
Sun. Tel. 16 Mar. 3/3: The working-class boy is a dedicated and motivated student. It is students from the gin-and-Jaguar belt who often lack any sense of what a university is for [OED].at gin and Jag belt (n.) under gin and Jag, adj.
Sun. Tel. (Sydney) 26 Aug. 112: Evidence was given that many Aboriginals drink ‘Northern Territory champagne’ – methylated spirits mixed with health salts [GAW4].at Northern Territory champagne, n.
Sun. Tel. (Sydney) 20 Apr. 90: The Centura is aimed at what is loosely known as the average Fred market – the ordinary family motorist who wants basic transport for a price and who is not an imported car buff [GAW4].at fred, n.
Sun. Tel. (Sydney) 30 May 34/2: When A.L.P. president Bob Hawke was appealing for money to help pay the Federal election campaign debt of $300,000, the N.S.W. Labor Party was claiming it could not afford to ‘kick the tin.’ [GAW4].at kick the tin (v.) under tin, n.
Sun. Tel. (Sydney) 4 Jan. 52: Windies roll with brutal pace beating .at Windies, n.
Sun. Tel. (Sydney) 2 Jan. 45: Although there are many who believe he pulls the coat in Sheffield Shield, that’s as far from the truth as you can get.at pull the coat (v.) under pull, v.
Sun. Tel. (Sydney) 13 May 168: It’s refreshing to hear an old Australian phrase amid all the government and advertising jargon. A taxi wound down a window on a freezing night this week. ‘Out there, mate,’ said the driver, ‘it’s as cold as a stepmother’s breath.’ [GAW4].at ...a step-mother’s breath under cold as..., adj.
Sun. Tel. (Sydney) 28 Mar. 176: Who’s the press secretary working out of the NSW parliament whose press-gallery nickname is Clayton [...] because he’s the press secretary you’re having when you’re not having a press secretary? [GAW4].at clayton’s, n.
Sun. Tel. 21 Aug. 11/3: It is naff to call your house The Gables, Mon Repos, or Dunroamin’.at naff, adj.1
Sun. Tel. 3 Mar. 14/8: Christopher, afterthought son of the founder member, [...] is allowed to sit in on the ladies’ discussions [OED].at afterthought, n.
Sun. Tel. 4 Dec. TV guide 13: The year is 2274 and life in glassdomed city is a perpetual piece of cake for its hedonists. But the fun wheel stops dead on 30, the age for compulsory ‘renewal’ that, in reality, means the flick.at flick (pass), the, n.
Sun. Tel. (Sydney) 9 July 120: Jockey Darby Munro once called Ajax a ‘meat pie champion’, meaning that he never beat any really top-class horses [GAW4].at meat pie, adj.
Sun. Tel. (Sydney) 21 Jan. 184: Just as many Aussies will settle for a Pommy’s Breakfast — a cup of tea and a smoke — or a Drover’s Breakfast — a look around and a cough [GAW4].at drover’s breakfast (n.) under drover, n.
Sun. Tel. Mag. 11 Jan. 9: I was immensely relieved that he decided not to have a go at me.at have a go (v.) under go, n.1
Sun. Tel. Mag. 11 Jan. 12: We’re in hock. We’ve invested the same again since we came here.at in hock under hock, n.2
Sun. Tel. mag. 11 Jan. 11: The ‘yellow peril’ has been replaced by the ‘black fellah in your backyard.’.at yellow peril, n.
Sun. Tel. mag. 12 Dec. 18: It’s terribly easy to make arrangements so you’re fireproof.at fireproof (adj.) under fire, n.
Sun. Tel. Mag. 12 Dec. 16: A strip of beer joints and girlie bars.at girlie bar (n.) under girlie, adj.
Sun. Tel. mag. 12 Dec. 18: He bought a ‘hot-sheet’ hotel in the red light city of Angeles.at hot-sheet hotel (n.) under hot-sheet, adj.
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