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Time Means Tucker 122: When the unlucky Chinese ordered him to ‘Bail up!’ the parson rode him down [...] and handed him over to the police.at bail up! (excl.) under bail up, v.
Time Means Tucker 122: When the unlucky Chinese ordered him to ‘Bail up!’ the parson rode him down [...] and handed him over to the police. Time Means Tucker 31: The old blankard was having us on all the time.at blankard, n.
Time Means Tucker 31: I reckon we went round that blanky yard twenty times.at blanky, adj.
Time Means Tucker 100: The old buffers had always been the greatest handicaps of the grandmothers.at buffer, n.3
Time Means Tucker 101: There were a few of the type known as ‘bush lairs’.at bush, adj.1
Time Means Tucker 93: Dutchy broke the ‘century’, and after tea the rep. [...] made a speech praising Dutchy and welcoming him to the ranks of the big-gun shearers.at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
Time Means Tucker 92: With only a couple thousand to go ‘Hughie’ answered the prayers of the loppies with a fairly heavy shower.at loppy, n.1
Time Means Tucker 33: A gentleman with an umbrella, three thimbles and a pea was demonstrating how ‘the quickness of the hand deceives the eye’ and was raking in the money at a great rate. When business slackened, another gentleman would pick up the pea with surprising regularity. This would bring the crowd back to try their luck again. No one seemed to wake up to the fact that the second gentleman was ‘ramming’ for the first gentleman.at ram, v.2
Time Means Tucker 33: Her husband [...] was her spruiker. He had a quaint falsetto voice and his only line was ‘Consult Madam Corwah for your futuah!’.at spruiker, n.
Time Means Tucker 34: Dutchy and myself were probably the only swagmen present.at swagman, n.2
Time Means Tucker (rev. edn) 16: He started off by saying that anything was good enough for ‘bloody plain turkeys’.at plain-turkey, n.
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