Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life choose

Quotation Text

[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Song of a Rolling Stone’ Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 90: I swore till all was blue.
at till all is blue, phr.
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Another Station Ballad’ in Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 43: It’s ninety in the shade [...] the skin peels off yer nose [...] The sorrows of the clerk, / Sittin’ in a shady office / While yer sheddin’ off yer bark.
at bark, n.1
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Another Station Ballad’ in Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 43: I’ll eat my bloomin’ hat, lads [...] You can bet yer life on that.
at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Song of a Rolling Stone’ Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 94: Cow spankin’ wasn’t quite the game they cracked it up to be.
at not all it’s cracked up to be under crack up, v.1
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Another Station Ballad’ in Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 47: Ye’ll never tire of mutton, and ye’ll never take the huff.
at take (the) huff (v.) under huff, n.
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Ned Dunne’ Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 63: He’d [...] ‘padded hoof’ to Albertown.
at pad the hoof (v.) under pad, v.1
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘The Rabbit Raid’ in Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 53: His love of gold was so intense / He’ d starve himself to save expense [...] He was a screw—.
at screw, n.1
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Another Station Ballad’ in Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 43: I’ll show you where they’re wrong in half a shake.
at half-a-shake (n.) under shake, n.1
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Ned Dunne’ Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 61: He carried on his back a swag with tent and fly.
at swag, n.1
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Man Who Humps his Drum’ Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 83: To be in time for tucker I can travel like a tyke.
at tucker, n.
[NZ] H. Thompson ‘Song of a Rolling Stone’ Ballads About Business and Back-Block Life 91: You’ll be sure to get some yacker.
at yacker, n.1
no more results