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A Bottle of Sandwiches choose

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[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 89: Shit a bloody brick. Bloody dirty stinkin’ rotten bastard. [Ibid.] 206: ‘Shit a bloody pebble,’ he said.
at shit a brick!, excl.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 93: Sounds a bit of all-bloody-right. Haven’t had a feed of crays for weeks.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 30: ‘What’s Luxor?’ ‘Abo baccy. Pretty potent, an’ a bit coarse.’.
at abo, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 60: When not too tired, a man was able to visit [...] the open-air fleas-n’-itches.
at fleas and itches, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 151: G’day. Owyezgoin?
at how are you going?, phr.
[Aus] D. O’Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 199: We bought a few Arrystotles of sandwiches in Kempsey.
at aristotle, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 114: I didn’t and don’t trust Noah’s arks of any size.
at Noah’s (ark), n.1
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 114: If we’d been caught, we’d have been knocked smartly A over T.
at arse over tit under arse, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 7: ‘More trouble than you’re worth,’ he said. ‘Yer bloody bowerbirds.’.
at bower-bird, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 28: A man feels a galah fronting a new boss and putting the bite on him for the price of a gallon of juice.
at put the bite on (v.) under bite, n.1
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 18: Seeing as we’d come this far we thought we’d better have a look at Australia’s ‘shittot city’. So we rubbered the bitumen on to Perth.
at rubber the bitumen, v.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 134: Three able bods are better than two, if the going gets rough.
at bod, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 205: The publican owed me a ‘brick’.
at brick, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 169: Three ‘buckets’ of foaming suds, amber in colour, with an inch of collar spilling over the rim.
at bucket, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 19: ‘What’s wrong with him?’ I said. [...] ‘Buggered if I know,’ Pat said.
at buggered if I know under buggered, adj.1
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 64: Cripes [...] Only went for a dip. Bloody current caught me. Carried me out to buggery.
at out to buggery (adj.) under buggery, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 30: Hope he brings the makin’s we asked him to. Smokin’ bumpers is all right when there’s nothin’ else, but by tomorrow we’ll be bumperin’ the bumpers.
at bumper, n.4
[Aus] D. O’Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 30: Hope he brings the makin’s we asked him to. Smokin’ bumpers is all right when there’s nothin’ else, but by tomorrow we’ll be bumperin’ the bumpers.
at bumper, v.2
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 40: Can’t say I’ve ever been there. Give it a burl?
at give it a burl (v.) under burl, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 101: Breakfast of bacon, cackleberries, Hogan’s ghost, and two quarts of tea.
at cackleberry (n.) under cackle, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 123: The joint jumps every night, the pubs make a fortune, the charlie-wheelers come in in droves.
at charlie wheeler, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 83: I came in for my share of chiacking from the boys.
at chi-ike, v.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 184: ‘Gettin’ a bit shy o’ chips,’ I said.
at chip, n.2
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 96: We [...] choofed off up the beach.
at choof off (v.) under choof, v.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 128: The boss ran quite a few chooks on the place, too, and sold the eggs.
at chook, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 199: Haven’t seen ’em in a coon’s age.
at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 93: Haven’t had a feed o’ crays for weeks.
at cray, n.1
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 68: He was a bit of a dag, the old Bern. Always ready with a quick quip and a witty answer.
at dag, n.2
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 56: I’m dry as last week’s dead marines.
at dead marine (n.) under dead, adj.
[Aus] D. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches 6: We had to fork over eight hundred fiddly-bloody-dids for her. [Ibid.] 99: I had to shell out around two hundred and fifty fiddleys.
at fiddley(-did), n.
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