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[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 127: You know all about each other now, warts and all.
at warts and all, phr.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 94: I don’t show this to every Tom, Dick and Harry.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 15: Nothing like the Aussie accent.
at Aussie, adj.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 191: He’s after baksheesh.
at baksheesh, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 275: Do you have any ruddy ball-and-chains here?
at ball and chain (n.) under ball, n.1
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 107: What our American friends, I think, call a ‘whole new ball game’. Dreadful expression.
at whole new ballgame (n.) under ballgame, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 302: I was coughing like a bastard.
at like a bastard (adv.) under bastard, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 180: The red-haired bosun poised on the conning tower dived off, bellyflopping.
at bellyflop, v.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 106: The bigwigs in science (there’s Leibnitz, goldilocks Newton) up to the present day.
at bigwig, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 101: What’s bitten you?
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 201: They’re little blighters now.
at blighter, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 184: Can the infrastructure handle the influx, especially the touchy blue-hairs from the North, those Brahmins with the hearing aids and astonishingly shaped spectacle frames?
at bluehair (n.) under blue, adj.1
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 90: Canvas bags with flap, grubby and open, the kind favoured and discarded by the international army of hirsute stowaways, bus travellers, hitch-hikers and bodgies.
at bodgie, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 127: Twisting around and still without looking at them she gave them the brush-off.
at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 73: Bugger me [...] this is something to write home about.
at bugger me! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 355: ‘Hey, buggerlugs,’ Garry put out his hand, ‘I thought you were in the States?’.
at buggerlugs, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 302: Then I got bloody bushed in the subway on the way back.
at bushed, adj.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 338: And no monkey business, please.
at monkey business, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 101: Darling, you remember all my cigarette commercials? I’m a regular chimney.
at chimney, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 188: The clapped-out Pegaso gathered speed down the cobbled street.
at clapped(-out), adj.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 99: Garry was up seventy quid before it rained [...] As he kept shaking his head, he’d been ‘taken to the cleaners’.
at take to the cleaners (v.) under cleaners, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 204: Everyone’s either crackers or they’re getting at you. I’m not stupid.
at crackers, adj.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 31: Have a dekko!
at dekko, n.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 143: She was fresh-faced, long, a dish.
at dish, n.1
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 201: A mother [...] dropped dobs of Wam into her son’s stained mouth.
at dob, n.1
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 322: They love getting dolled up.
at dolled up, adj.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 155: I’d better dry up.
at dry up, v.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 377: ‘Oh dry up.’ That was Violet.
at dry up, v.
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 162: We had never, hum, seen one of your dunnies before.
at dunny, n.2
[Aus] M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 181: What’s eating her, for chrissake?
at eat, v.
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