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In Bad Company 218: Now I’m on to the part of the play when the ‘ante-up’ comes in. You mind me, you young fellers, it always does sooner or later.at ante-up, n.
In Bad Company 218: Now I’m on to the part of the play when the ‘ante-up’ comes in. You mind me, you young fellers, it always does sooner or later. In Bad Company 138: He surprised the Yarrabee Station, ‘bailing’ Mr. Waugh the overseer, Mr. Apps, and others.at bail up, v.
(ref. to 1867) In Bad Company 483: Calling out in what he meant to be a tone of intimidation, ‘Bail up. Stop and get out.’.at bail up! (excl.) under bail up, v.
In Bad Company 8: That’s the worst of bein’ married, you never can follow your own opinions without a lot of barneyin’ and opposition.at barney, v.
In Bad Company 104: Well, we had a bit of a barney, nothing much.at barney, n.2
In Bad Company 10: A man can get a lawyer, and fight out his case before the P[olice]. M[agistrate]., and the other beaks.at beak, n.1
In Bad Company 214: It’s no odds to us, so long’s the creeks don’t rise and block us goin’ to the big smoke.at Big Smoke, n.
In Bad Company 201: In those days the ‘labour trade’ did not exist, and to ‘black-birding’ was no scale of profit attached.at blackbirding, n.
In Bad Company 11: A delegate walkin’ up and down, makin’ believe to be boss, while I’m payin’ for the wages and rations, and horses and thrashing-machine, and the whole boiling.at whole boiling lot, n.
In Bad Company 33: This was a bombshell with a vengeance.at bombshell, n.
In Bad Company 110: They boned our swags, our horses, our grub, and our pack-saddles.at bone, v.1
In Bad Company 262: A gentleman! Bosh!at bosh!, excl.1
In Bad Company 148: Every passing traveller [...] had nuggets of gold in his pocket, ‘or knowed a party as bottomed last week to the tune of £1200 a man’.at bottom, v.
In Bad Company 128: I found myself in gaol pretty soon after, when it was explained to me [...] what steel bracelets were like.at bracelets, n.
In Bad Company 291: He talks of people indifferently as ‘coves’ or ‘cards’.at card, n.2
(ref. to 1867) In Bad Company 483: I paid my bill at Martin’s [...] and it cleaned me out.at clean out, v.
(ref. to 1860s) In Bad Company 315: The last flock was ‘on the battens,’ and amid ironical congratulations the ‘cobbler’ (or last sheep) was seized.at cobbler, n.1
In Bad Company 250: You seem rather hot coffee, missus!at hot coffee, adj.
In Bad Company 415: His sobriquet was acquired more through the ebullitions of a harmless vanity than from any of the offensive qualities which the well-worn colonial adjective is wont to imply.at colonial adjective (n.) under colonial, adj.
In Bad Company 100: The beggar’s been squared or ‘copped’ for some bloomin’ fake [...] He’s goin’ to turn dog on us, after all.at cop, v.
In Bad Company 217: If a man was to ‘shake’ a horse here and ride him to Queensland, he’d never be copped.at cop, v.
In Bad Company 219: Take a fools advice. It don’t pay to ‘go on the cross’ – never did.at on the cross under cross, n.1
(ref. to 1867) In Bad Company 487: I’m full up of this ‘cross’ work.at cross, adj.
In Bad Company 217: ‘D--n it all, man,’ says I.at damn it!, excl.
In Bad Company 13: Well, I’m d---d!at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
In Bad Company 22: They’d be deaders the first dry season – down from weakness for a week or two, with their eyes picked out by the crows.at deader, n.
In Bad Company 43: They’ve turned dog on the squatters as trusted ’em.at turn dog (v.) under dog, n.2
In Bad Company 4: When she thought of the way other women’s husbands ‘knocked down’ their money after shearing, forty and fifty pounds, even more, in a week’s drunken bout.at knock down, v.
In Bad Company 32: Listen to me, and drop them shears – every man Jack of yer.at every man jack (n.) under every, adj.
In Bad Company 357: They will not fag at their books to the same extent as a Britisher.at fag, v.2
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