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[Aus] 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.
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 330: The concrete contractors holding their palms out for backsheesh.
at baksheesh, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 286: There was a balls-up at Foreign Affairs.
at balls-up, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 291: Don’t think we’re nothing but a pack of bludgers.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 311: Now bugger off, I’ve got work to do.
at bugger off, v.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 250: Shadbolt paused with a lump of flake.
at flake, n.1
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 348: We’ve been flat out lately.
at flat out, adj.2
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 296: Follow me and no frigging about.
at frig about (v.) under frig, v.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 310: I soon found myself in hot water.
at hot water, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 310: He’d jacked up over being told to buzz off every afternoon.
at jack up, v.1
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 306: With a nod he indicated a kero tin for a seat.
at kero, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 243: A .303 pinged off one of his toes, that’s all.
at ping, v.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 263: ‘She’s shot through,’ he reported, meaning Miss Kilmartin.
at shot, adj.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
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