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Gus Tomlins: together with the original stories of ‘Me and Gus’ choose

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[UK] F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 15: He breezed into the bach as large as life.
at bach, n.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ Me and Gus (1977) 18: If anyone had spoken to me like that I’d have cracked them.
at crack, v.1
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Bull’ in Me And Gus (1977) 44: I thought the old chap was done that time.
at done, adj.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 12: I could see Gus’s eye following a tall, willowy fairy as she waltzed round.
at fairy, n.1
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 15: Nick [...] said ‘Hold the reins, Mary, while I get out and wipe the dirt with that snipe.’.
at wipe the floor (with), v.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Bull’ in Me And Gus (1977) 43: The way he went off about it was a fair scorcher.
at go off, v.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ in Me And Gus (1977) 20: Everybody knows a horse is goosed after it has cleared out once.
at goosed, adj.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 21: It only gave us twenty-six bob for a day’s graft.
at graft, n.2
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ in Me And Gus (1977) 18: Gus said the horse was an out-and-out jibber.
at jibber, n.
[UK] F. Anthony Me And Gus (1977) 15: All he wanted me to do was to go into town with him in the jigger.
at jigger, n.5
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ Me And Gus (1977) 20: He said we could hop in that winter while the cows were dry, and knock up anything up to a fiver a day each.
at knock up, v.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ Me And Gus (1977) 22: Those two old chaps over the fence had knocked up over two cord that day.
at knock up, v.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ in Me And Gus (1977) 17: What’s the use of shooting a good moke like that just because she’s high-spirited?
at moke, n.1
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 11: I’m always mug enough to accept the offer.
at mug, adj.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ in Me And Gus (1977) 19: He told us that the horse was a rank outlaw.
at outlaw, n.
[NZ] F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 12: We took a seat and piped off all the good-lookers.
at pipe off (v.) under pipe, v.3
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 14: I was still gazing into the black night, listening to that rattletrap old engine.
at rattletrap, adj.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Bull’ in Me And Gus (1977) 43: The way he went off about it was a fair scorcher.
at scorcher, n.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Vilet Again’ in Me And Gus (1977) 49: I generally have a tin of golden syrup at my show, if any visitor drops in.
at show, n.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Mowing Our Hay’ in Me And Gus (1977) 57: I snapped the offer before he had time to change his mind.
at snap, v.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 15: We parted real snarky at the finish.
at snarky, adj.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 21: It didn’t seem such a wonderful snip to me, after I had worked it out on paper.
at snip, n.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 13: Little squib like you!
at squib, n.3
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 20: The year of the great butter slump, when all the farmers were doing a starve.
at do a starve (v.) under starve, n.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Mowing Our Hay’ in Me And Gus (1977) 53: Take that waddy, Mark.
at waddy, n.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Violet Again’ in Me And Gus (1977) 50: She greeted me with a gracious smile, so I knew it was all serene.
at all serene, adj.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Violet Again’ Me and Gus (1977) 52: I was to keep away, and not come and deliberately ‘put his pot on’ the way I’d just done.
at put someone’s pot on (v.) under pot, n.1
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Tomlins’ in Me And Gus (1977) 106: He was a shingle short, in some ways.
at shingle short, a, adj.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Tomlins’ in Me And Gus (1977) 172: They looked as mad as meat-axes, thinking about the cat, but neither had the nerve to say anything.
at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
[UK] F. Anthony ‘Gus Tomlins’ in Me And Gus (1977) 122: All the mouldy old agriculture tomes that littered up his bach.
at bach, n.
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