1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 127: You know all about each other now, warts and all.at warts and all, phr.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 94: I don’t show this to every Tom, Dick and Harry.at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 275: Do you have any ruddy ball-and-chains here?at ball and chain (n.) under ball, n.1
1980 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.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 302: I was coughing like a bastard.at like a bastard (adv.) under bastard, n.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 180: The red-haired bosun poised on the conning tower dived off, bellyflopping.at bellyflop, v.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 106: The bigwigs in science (there’s Leibnitz, goldilocks Newton) up to the present day.at bigwig, n.
1980 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
1980 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.
1980 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.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 73: Bugger me [...] this is something to write home about.at bugger me! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 355: ‘Hey, buggerlugs,’ Garry put out his hand, ‘I thought you were in the States?’.at buggerlugs, n.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 302: Then I got bloody bushed in the subway on the way back.at bushed, adj.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 101: Darling, you remember all my cigarette commercials? I’m a regular chimney.at chimney, n.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 188: The clapped-out Pegaso gathered speed down the cobbled street.at clapped(-out), adj.
1980 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.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 204: Everyone’s either crackers or they’re getting at you. I’m not stupid.at crackers, adj.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 201: A mother [...] dropped dobs of Wam into her son’s stained mouth.at dob, n.1
1980 M. Bail Homesickness (1999) 162: We had never, hum, seen one of your dunnies before.at dunny, n.2