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Battlers 154: She says it was as easy as falling off a log. You can get anything out of him when he’s drunk.at easy as falling off a log, adj.
Battlers 154: She says it was as easy as falling off a log. You can get anything out of him when he’s drunk. Battlers 110: ‘Not that I care a damn,’ he added hastily.at not give a damn, v.
Battlers 203: Life just flowed along, and it didn’t matter a damn what you wanted.at not matter a damn, v.
Battlers 45: ‘Hang on a moment,’ Duke said suddenly. ‘I want to go to the railway station.’ ‘Why? Ain’t we had enough muckin’ about for one night?’.at muck about, v.
Battlers 258: Twenty-two seemed to him a great age to be just ‘knocking about’, still insecure, still with a blank scroll of fame to carve.at knock about, v.1
Battlers 154: Good God! Look at that shoe-buckle. I’ll have to stitch it. Damnall! The only pair of evening shoes I brought.at damn-all, n.
Battlers 154: ‘Aw, don’t be a nark,’ the boy stammered. ‘Be a sport and help me upstairs. I’m all in.’.at all in, adj.
Battlers 16: ‘Don’t presume to address your betters, my man,’ she responded. ‘Get along with you.’.at get along with you!, excl.
Battlers 143: The ampster’s is an easy job. He stands in the front row of the listening crowd registering interest and enthusiasm while the showman ‘spruiks’. [...] The ampster rushes eagerly over to the ticket-window and says: ‘Right-oh, mister, I’ll have a ticket.’ He pretends to pass his money over, and is handed a ticket. His brother-ampsters form into an impatient queue behind him and file into the tent at the head of the multitude, who, like sheep, will follow the leader, but will not be the first to pay their money. If it were not for the ampsters, there would be no audience.at ampster, n.
Battlers 143: Mr. Fosdick was agreeable, provided the busker would ‘ampster’ for him.at ampster, v.
Battlers 313: ‘Right y’are,’ the man said. ‘I’ve got my jinker here.’.at right you are!, excl.
Battlers 177: They was all as happy as Larry till you come down talking bloody war.at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
Battlers 164: Postle’s fick as fieves wiv all them Littles. ’E sits and yarns to ’em all the bloody day.at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
Battlers 229: ‘A lot of bolony,’ the good unionists scoffed.at baloney, n.
Battlers 108: Nobody tried to stop me getting my ribs bashed in.at bash, v.
Battlers 16: ‘She’s bats.’ The Stray tapped her forehead. ‘Looney, like farver was.’ She added hopefully: ‘Maybe she’s escaped from a ’sylum.’.at bats, adj.
Battlers 164: They were a new sort of people, the travellers; and he belonged to them. He did not belong to the Hourigans, who scratched a little plot of land, to the ‘cockies’, anxious and hard-working and greedy. He was a ‘battler’.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Battlers 100: [He] invited the busker to ‘a bit of a beano’ which the dark people were holding that night.at beano, n.1
Battlers 25: Where all these bagmen come from beats me.at beat, v.
Battlers 215: Oh look! the baby! Jeeze, he’s a fat little beggar!at beggar, n.
Battlers 301: George the Bower-bird [was] prowling around deserted camps, swooping on rubbish.at bower-bird, n.
Battlers 301: I don’t want him bower-birding round this camp.at bower bird, v.
Battlers 34: Talking and smoking and comparing ‘handouts’ and ‘bites’ and good towns and ‘hungry tracks’.at bite, n.1
Battlers 68: I can bite anyone, go into places wiv dogs, ask in shops, do fings I’d never do for meself, jus’ for somebody else.at bite, v.
Battlers 273: They’re blind blotto by this.at blotto, adj.
Battlers 173: ‘Hey, Jim, here’s a copper’s grave’. ‘Well, don’t clear none of the weeds away from him,’ I says. ‘He’s bludged on bagmen all his life.’.at bludge, v.
Battlers 39: Every one of these starchy old Johnnies talking about the time he humped the bluey.at hump one’s bluey (v.) under bluey, n.1
Battlers 107: I thought you was in boob by now.at boob, n.1
Battlers 100: These boangs are all too matey.at boong, n.
Battlers 237: Cherry-bootlegging had always been one of Orion’s chief entertainments, and fully half as many stolen cases of cherries were shipped away as there were legitimate cases picked.at bootleg, v.
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