1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 291: That sister of yours: I suppose you know she’s been mucking around with Mister McBee?at muck about, v.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 330: The concrete contractors holding their palms out for backsheesh.at baksheesh, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 286: There was a balls-up at Foreign Affairs.at balls-up, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 332: There’d only be his smoker’s cough between his steady belly-aching to Rust.at bellyaching (n.) under bellyache, v.
1987 M. Bail Holden’ s Performance (1989) 290: Jimmy [...] is a half-blood from the Territory. Doesn’t like the big smoke.at Big Smoke, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 253: ‘What’s the big idea?’ He turned to Harriet. ‘What’s going on?’.at what’s the (big) idea?, phr.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 291: Don’t think we’re nothing but a pack of bludgers.at bludger, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 159: I can depend on you. You’re not one of those slack bodgie types who leave chewing gum on the seats and who’ve never done a fucking day’s work in their lives.at bodgie, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 311: The shot was aimed to wing me in the leg, or scare the living daylights out of me.at frighten the (living) daylights out of (v.) under daylights, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 291: Has the old boy been bashing your ear? I bet he has. Christ, he’s full of garbage sometimes.at earbash, v.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 280: ‘I saw her face.’ ‘Fair go. She would have been doing a hundred and twenty miles an hour.’.at fair go, phr.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 296: Follow me and no frigging about.at frig about (v.) under frig, v.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 288: In this business I need a name like, I don’t know – a hole in the head.at need like a hole in the head (v.) under hole in one’s head, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 310: He’d jacked up over being told to buzz off every afternoon.at jack up, v.1
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 306: With a nod he indicated a kero tin for a seat.at kero, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 269: Not only mugshots of Mr Frank McBee, MP, scratching himself like Napoleon at state functions.at mug shot, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 275: Lately McBee had taken to publicly pointing to his war wound with the mulga walking stick.at mulga, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 281: And you’re quite an oddball. You know that? You’re attracted to cripples and power-maniacs.at oddball, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 316: The Australian love for the oddball-character has bedevilled the newspapers, its art and literature.at oddball, adj.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 243: A .303 pinged off one of his toes, that’s all.at ping, v.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 160: I don’t want to see a single pooch in the theatre. Before you know it they’ll lay a turd on the carpets.at pooch, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 312: On butcher’s paper from the bush: ‘If that poofter sets foot in our town for the jubilee celebrations ...’.at poofter, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 161: Even here he managed to sheet back his experiences to the all-embracing terms, Epic, because ‘Every Prick Is Cuntstruck’.at prick, n.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 263: ‘She’s shot through,’ he reported, meaning Miss Kilmartin.at shot, adj.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 349: On the last night he shouted Vern a meal in the capital’s only greasy fish ’n’ chip shop.at shout, v.
1987 M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 333: That bit of skirt of yours in Manly, time you stopped frigging about with her.at bit of skirt (n.) under skirt, n.