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[NZ] R.H. Morrieson Predicament 210: Man the Lifeboats! We’re going down with all hands and the cook. Down to Davy Jones’s locker.
at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[NZ] in R.H. Morrieson Predicament 21: [inscription on flyleaf of a schoolboy’s text book] Stay for me, / I shall not fail / To meet you in that hollow vale, / But what a rumpty there will be / If thou shouldst bring this book with thee!
at rumpty (dooler), n.
[NZ] R.H. Morrieson Predicament 83: Boy, [...] did I see some sights! Right up close. They never knew I was there. I used to get a silly on.
at silly, n.2
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