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[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 130: He didn’t care a twopenny damn if they were building straw huts.
at not give a tuppenny damn, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 168: [He] had a refined and alleviating line of conversation with skirts. He could always string the feminine.
at string (along), v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 176: She’ll be with a gay, not just a bunny anyone would pick up.
at gay and hearty, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 264: Linnie who was becoming an out-and-out Communist.
at out-and-out, adj.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 47: Tisn’t like a lot of places, just any old how.
at anyhow, adj.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 289: There was no chance of proving a charge of wilful damage of property. Everything was in apple-pie order.
at apple-pie order, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 180: [He] was heading for Maisie’s flat to establish an alibi when the idea occurred to him that Hamp might have been carrying his, Curly’s gun. What a put-away!
at put-away, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 260: Their like as takers of backsheesh would be no more in the land.
at baksheesh, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 160: Rolfe was again ‘a ball of muscle’, as he termed it, working on the Slum Abolition Committee.
at ball of muscle (n.) under ball, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 238: The Central Strike Committee was spending money like water just to bash up a few hundred volunteers.
at bash up (v.) under bash, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 127: He had been a sturdy, hale, bull-voiced old battler in the days of the war.
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 261: He was breezy and cheerful and, at times, slightly beery.
at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 266: ‘I don’t know whether to lumber the beggars or knock ’em,’ he yelled. ‘Begorra I’ll knock ’em.’.
at begorra!, excl.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 49: You’re a nice one [...] There’s times when I could belt you.
at belt, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 172: Jordan’s many years in a bar had given him a perfect technique in dealing with ear-biters.
at ear-biter, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 246: In the midst Emily Anseer, all flying hair and garments, was busily hacking the ankles of two policemen painfully endeavouring to drag her to the black maria.
at Black Maria, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 33: He put me onto a Good Thing. He did, blast him.
at blast, v.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 249: That beastly old blister had the hide to button-hole him in the street.
at blister, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 220: Three quarters of an hour after the appointed time Honest John accidentally blew in, having remembered, that he was to meet a man about some timber.
at blow in, v.2
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 290: You can always get a bet ’cause there’s sure to be some bloke wiv a life sentence an’ a wireless. As long as you don’t smack a bad blue, you ought to ’ave a ’appy time [AND].
at smack a blue (v.) under blue, n.4
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 290: As long as you don’t smack a bad blue, you ought to ’ave a ’appy time.
at blue, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 252: When a cop brings in one of these strikers, a sympathetic Bobbie down at the Court rings up the Trades Hall.
at bobby, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 253: ‘Disgraceful,’ Honest John boiled. ‘If I had them I’d show them!’.
at boil, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 247: Give it to ’em! Put in the boot, boys!
at put the boot in (v.) under boot, the, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 43: Nosey pocketed his reward [...]. ‘Bet he boozes the lot,’ the Captian prophesied.
at booze, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 49: Eight-Hour Day and a rush on, and that’s the time you get boozed.
at boozed, adj.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 223: ‘Moved that no action be taken,’ chanted one of the more crusted alderman and added under his breath ‘crackbrained bosh’.
at bosh, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 312: ‘I brassed a mug yesterday [...] and everything’s sweet again.’ He flashed a roll of notes as big as his fist.
at brass, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 279: Here am I—practically flat broke. Don’t know if I can scrape together enough to pay my rent next week.
at flat broke, adj.
[Aus] K. Tennant Foveaux 132: Anything to buck old Jimmy up.
at buck up, v.2
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