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I’m a Jack, All Right choose

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[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 17: Don’t be bloody mad [...] Stop mucking around.
at muck about, v.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 23: Now if you intend to bugger me about, give me back that dough.
at bugger about, v.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 104: I’m feeling fine. Abso-bloody-lutely fine.
at absobloodylutely, adv.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 17: Piddling all your savings up against a pub wall and putting the acid on some scrawny sheilas.
at put the acid on (v.) under acid, n.2
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 21: Get yourselves back here on the dot of eight ack emma on the seventeenth.
at ack emma, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 88: If I was free and easy like this sailor boy, I’d be all over you like a rash.
at all over, adj.2
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 8: That’s got buggerall to do with it.
at bugger all, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 32: I want to be in one piece so I can give you the father of a bloody hiding.
at father (and mother) of..., n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 25: Watching Cocky snore it off — and stopping him fall arse-over-turkey off his chair.
at arse over turkey under arse, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 124: The jack [...] got it right through the eye. Knocked the boar arse over kettle.
at arse/ass over teakettle under arse, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 97: My arms were too sore to take a bead through falling arse over into his bloody traps.
at arse over under arse, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 15: No wonder you’re still a bare-arsed A.B. with that low intelligence.
at bare-arsed, adj.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 29: If it wasn’t as black as the inside of a cow, I might have some chance of sighting Moutn Hope.
at black as..., adj.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 56: The only tree within a bull’s roar of the track for five miles.
at within an ass’s roar (of) under ass, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 18: ‘I’m driving this car out to a one horse town called Eucharong.’ ‘Never heard of it.’ ‘You wouldn’t. It’s way back o’Bourke. Beyond the Black Stump’.
at back of Bourke under back, adv.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 47: I can stand anything but a nasty drunk [...] A man who gets a skinful of piss and then wants to take on the world, gets my back up.
at get someone’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 24: You won’t need more clobber [...] than you can fit into one dilly bag.
at dilly-bag, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 8: No bastard has Buckley’s chance of changing his mind.
at bastard, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 99: ‘It’s too hot to ride at the bat’ [...] He set the pace at a slow trot.
at at the bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 17: A man ud go batty just talking to himself.
at batty, adj.1
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 21: Can’t afford [...] getting a belting into the bargain.
at belting (n.) under belt, v.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 33: I [...] caught sight of your broad bundoon sticking out from that salt bush.
at bend-down (n.) under bend, v.1
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 23: Then sometime at our leisure [...] we can ease our way gently out of the big smoke.
at Big Smoke, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 11: I also happen to have a roll of greenbacks big enough to choke a horse.
at big enough to choke a bull (adj.) under big, adj.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 10: She’d turn un-romantic in a hurry if she learned of some of the bins ou’ve patronised around Wonchai.
at bin, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 18: ‘I’m driving this car out to a one horse town called Eucharong.’ ‘Never heard of it.’ ‘You wouldn’t. It’s way back o’Bourke. Beyond the Black Stump’.
at beyond the black stump (adj.) under black stump, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 42: ‘How did you know we were sailors?’ [...] ‘Blind Freddie ud know you for sailors. Pick you a mile off’.
at blind Freddie, n.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 115: You [...] can go on a blind whenever you feel like it, with no one to answer to.
at blinder, n.3
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 52: We’re in no blistering hurry.
at blistering, adj.
[Aus] J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 42: The only times any customers have been prepared to get stuck with them coloured needles has been when they are completely blithered.
at blithered, adj.
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