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The Tree of Man choose

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[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 75: We was settun eatun our little pies, when he becomes as bold as brass.
at bold as brass (adj.) under bold as..., adj.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 18: There were people in that place who said that Mrs. Fibbens was as rough as bags.
at ...a bag under rough as..., adj.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 466: She was swinging her little dillybag, in which was a packet of something from the shop.
at dilly-bag, n.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 57: We’re milkun the two big beasts hand over fist, and the bally heifer comun in.
at bally, adj.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 397: It was not something you could like or dislike [...] I had a bellyful of it, though.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 75: The old Hun that you have, eatun ’is head off, and bustin’ ’is pants in the shed out there.
at bust one’s ass (v.) under bust, v.1
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 82: The place was chock-a-block, what with victims and volunteers.
at chockablock, adj.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 375: What’s up, Stan? [...] Are you feeling crook? [Ibid.] 472: Only Mrs. La Touche, whose establishment it was, was goin’ crook over the good name of her house.
at crook, adj.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 76: He will belt the daylights out of the horse.
at beat the (living) daylight(s) out of (v.) under daylights, n.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 387: I came to take a dekker at you, Thel.
at dekko, n.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 66: Fritz had arrived one night with his swag and was allowed to doss down in a shed.
at doss down (v.) under doss, v.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 75: What is wrong, may I ask, with the old Hun that you have, eatun ’is head off, and bustin’ ’is pants in the shed out there, if he cannot pull an extra tit an deliver the milk?
at eat one’s head off (v.) under eat, v.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 78: Which ’usband is she flickin’ well talkin’ of?
at flicking, adj.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 58: I go in mortal terror meself whenever I have the wind.
at mortal, adj.1
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 78: ‘Listen,’ said the cove, ‘we got a drop of the real thing underneath the seat.’.
at real thing, the, n.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 327: And smoke – Christ, I have curdled me stomach. I have given them away, the smokes.
at smoke, n.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man 91: ‘You can jump down, can’t you? You’re quite big, you know.’ ‘Of course he can [...] he’s a sollicker.’.
at sollicker, n.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 332: He got out, and went into the pub [...] Several men talked to him in that swill pot.
at swillery, n.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 361: ‘This is a bit of tucker, dear,’ said the mother, who had forgotten what pleasure she would have in watching him eat.
at tucker, n.
[Aus] P. White Tree of Man (1956) 472: She was a big yawny sort of a girl, a country girl.
at yawney, n.
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