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The Joyful Condemned choose

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[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 60: Whether Hurtle Street or Douche Can Alley I wouldn’t say.
at douche can alley, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 205: Geechi! [...] You ole alley-cat! Where you been?
at alley cat, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 383: She sped along to the little ham-and-beef shop on the corner of the street.
at ham and beef, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 49: That big animal of a Mort hadn’t any more sense than to give the girls away.
at animal, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 314: There’ll be nosing around there sure as hell.
at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 232: What do you want to dwell on Terry for? She was always as mad as a snake.
at ...a cut snake under mad as..., adj.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 202: She is a put-away and no help to me.
at put-away, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 47: He hasn’t got away [...] He’s as good as in the bag.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 322: Just getting some spots off the old bag of fruit.
at bag of fruit, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 191: The battle waggon in the harbour, affectionately known as the Wandering Junkpile.
at battle wagon (n.) under battle, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 167: Of course the Bay can be pretty grim. Dirty blankets and they don’t wash the spoons.
at Bay, the, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 7: ‘Got any money?’ ‘Not a bean.’.
at not a bean (n.) under bean, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 47: What does she do? Slugs a guy like a cro on a beat.
at beat, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 23: ‘Morton the bustman!’ Rene sneered. ‘Listen to him big-note himself. He’s going to do a bust.’.
at big-note, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 170: The senior warder is a lousy bint.
at bint, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 159: In the charge room at the back, one early-bird solicitor was already seeking an interview with his client.
at early-bird, adj.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 101: You’re a nasty piece of work.
at nasty bit of work, n.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 37: Now, what’s biting you, Mort?
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 231: It was all a big standover. There were farmers being stood over by banks, butchers bullied by carcase butchers, bakers driven to suicide by flour millers; all one big bite.
at bite, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 232: I’ve got coves on the bite all the time.
at on the bite under bite, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 370: I been expecting her to drop in and bite me for a few bob.
at bite, v.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 371: Why, David, you old boob rat! [...] What you doing in this blood-house?
at blood house (n.) under blood, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 21: Don’t let’s have any blues [...] You know how the brush are? Screaming and yelling copper at the least little thing.
at blues, n.2
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 209: Then he’d eat a bit of bread and say, ‘Bonza roast beef’.
at bonzer, adj.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 371: Why, David, you old boob rat! [...] What you doing in this blood-house?
at boob rat (n.) under boob, n.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 171: I’ve only to pass the word to some of the boss’s boys, and you won’t find this such a good sitting-place either.
at boss, n.2
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 226: As a rotund, solemn small boy he had been bounced by his sister Terry, by the Cobbett son Johnno, by old man Cobbett.
at bounce, v.1
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 306: Break it up, Terry [...] Time you got back to the Wing.
at break it up!, excl.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 328: You don’t have to appear in that little brum court they have at the Reception House.
at brum, adj.
[Aus] K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 26: To him all girls were collectively ‘the brush’; some were ‘hot dishes’, and others ‘drak’ sorts’.
at brush, n.4
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