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[Aus] T. Winton ‘Small Mercies’ in Turning (2005) 93: The horn went again: shave-and-a-haircut-ten-cents.
at shave-and-a-haircut, n.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 5: He couldn’t give a rat’s ring.
at not give a rat’s ass, v.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Defender’ in Turning (2005) 312: The boy called him five kinds of fucking cunt.
at all kinds of, adv.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Abbreviation’ in Turning (2005) 18: They were the sorriest-looking bunch of girls you’d ever see, freckly as all get-out.
at all get out, phr.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 3: I white-ant him day after day until it starts to pay off.
at white-ant, v.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Fog’ in Turning (2005) 236: He wondered if it was his reputation as a bit of a straight arrow.
at straight arrow, n.
[Aus] T. Winton Turning (2005) 151: The kids arse about on escalators in department stores.
at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 182: ‘You were more arse than class.’ ‘Fair enough. But I just played for fun.’.
at more arse than class under arse, n.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 183: Everything was arse-up again.
at arse up under arse, n.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 11: Meg is as thick as a box of hammers.
at thick as..., adj.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 184: He played to prove every balding, wheezy lard-arse commentator wrong.
at lard-assed, adj.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Reunion’ in Turning (2005) 209: Oh my sainted aunt! cried Carol.
at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Abbreviation’ in Turning (2005) 17: It was the usual Uncle Ernie balls-up.
at balls-up, n.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Abbreviation’ in Turning (2005) 18: Uncle Ernie was a ginger banty-rooster of a bloke.
at banty, adj.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 4: He’s kind of pear-shaped, but you’d be a brave bugger calling him a barge-arse.
at barge-arse (n.) under barge, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Cockleshell’ in Turning (2005) 123: In his day he was a professional rabble-rouser, a drunk, a basher.
at basher, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton Turning (2005) 143: She tried to light a little joint she’d been saving but the bastard of a thing was too damp.
at bastard, n.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Abbreviation’ Turning (2005) 29: ‘Hurt?’ ‘Like a total bastard,’ she said.
at like a bastard (adv.) under bastard, n.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 2: With beanies on our heads.
at beanie, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Boner McPharlin’s Moll’ Turning (2005) 280: I was in beaucoup shit.
at beaucoup, n.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 14: In a week Biggie and Meg will blow me off.
at blow off, v.1
[Aus] T. Winton Turning (2005) 143: Raelene blew off darts night altogether and just went straight to Dan and Sherry’s.
at blow off, v.1
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 181: You come here to blue with me? said Max with his pit-bull leer.
at blue, v.3
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Cockleshell’ in Turning (2005) 114: She was bog-ordinary.
at bog-standard, adj.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 5: For him, our bombing out is a huge joke.
at bomb out, v.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Boner McPharlin’s Moll’ in Turning (2005) 263: Hard-faced sluts [...] wanted to know how big Boner’s bone was.
at bone, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton Turning (2005) 137: He said he wasn’t the brown-nosing sort.
at brown-nose, v.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Boner McPharlin’s Moll’ in Turning (2005) 262: The gossip at school was brutal.
at brutal, adj.
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 9: Biggie truly is a funny bugger.
at bugger, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton ‘Reunion’ in Turning (2005) 210: Bugger it, Mum.
at bugger it!, excl.
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