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Straight as a Line choose

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[Aus] A.A. MacInnes Straight as a Line 133: [W]hat a day the men who played games of chance on the racecourse were sure to have! —the ‘three card’ men; ‘under and over’ dice manipulators; ‘Who'll have the lucky number seven?’ ‘marble men’; ‘spinning jenny’ spielers [...] and a host of others.
at under-and-over (n.) under under and over, n.
[Aus] A.A. MacInnes Straight as a Line 133: [W]hat a day the men who played games of chance on the racecourse were sure to have! —the ‘three card’ men; ‘under and over’ dice manipulators; ‘Who'll have the lucky number seven?’ [...] and a host of others.
at three-card (monte) man (n.) under three-card monte, n.
[Aus] A.A. MacInnes Straight as a Line 133: ‘Spinning jenny’ spielers; men who offered you ‘three throws for sixpence,’ and a shilling every time you broke the pipe, and a host of others.
at spinning jenny, n.2
[Aus] A.A. MacInnes Straight as a Line 222: The fighting blood was roused within him, and he longed to have a ‘lash’, as he put it, at the gang.
at have a lash (at) (v.) under lash, n.1
[Aus] A.A. MacInnes Straight as a Line 264: Good old Jack! Knew he was the Right Bower of something! [...] but did not know it was the trumps!
at right bower (n.) under right, adj.
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