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[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 140: If everything is running smoothly ‘she’s apples.’.
at apples, adj.
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 33: ‘Bastard’ used in the kind Australian way, the way that means: ‘You old son of a gun’.
at bastard, n.
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 72: I’m in one blue after another lately.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 104: ‘Dinger’, by the way, is a word born in the A.I.F. It describes, neatly, the place on which you sit.
at dinger, n.1
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 139: Everything is a ‘doover.’ If you are looking for an oil can or a piece of soap, you wonder where you put the ‘doover’.
at doover, n.
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 30: ‘This may be dynamite, baby,’ he said, as he gingerly cut at the string holding one cork. [...] The cork flew off like a bullet.
at dynamite, adj.
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 52: He drew his gat, that faithful pal, and let Red Jim have it between the eyes.
at gat, n.1
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 62: I’m open-minded myself [...] although, back home, we heard a lot of guff from some people.
at guff, n.1
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 52: He drew his gat, that faithful pal, and let Red Jim have it between the eyes.
at let someone have it (v.) under have, v.
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 47: There is one gunner whose thinking apparatus begins slowly, and Shorty calls him ‘Ox-head.’ All the Japanese are ‘bomb-heads,’ and anyone who changes his mind is a ‘willow-head’.
at -head, sfx
[Aus] J. Binning Target Area 31: ‘Suffering cactus,’ said Rodgers.
at suffering —!, excl.
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