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[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 97: George worships the ground she treads on, and she can’t make herself care two straws about him.
at not care a straw, v.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 122: It ain’t so easy to get a regular up-and-down straight-ahead jury in a place of this sort.
at straight-ahead, adj.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 236: So the muchacha went back on yer — snakes alive!
at snakes (alive)!, excl.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 311: Joe takes Jim’s togs. They fitted him all to pieces.
at all to pieces, adv.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms (2006) 466: Mr. Hamilton waited for about an hour, so as to be sure they weren’t stringing him on to go into the open, to be potted at.
at string on (v.) under string (along), v.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 228: They were such up and down good fellows, and such real friends to us, that we should have grudged them nothing.
at up-and-down, adj.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 87: There was nothing for it but to cut and run.
at cut and run, v.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 62: You needn’t thank me so out and out as all that.
at out-and-out, adv.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 147: Isn’t he [i.e. a horse] a regular out-and-outer to look at?
at out-and-outer, n.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 313: He always said he’d die happy if he could only bag you and the Marstons.
at bag, v.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 168: Just at the worst pinch or at a turn, someone sings out, ‘Bail up.’ The coachman sees a strange man in front, or close alongside him, with a revolver pointed straight at him.
at bail up, v.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 71: Pulled up before if I knowed your horses were getting baked.
at baked, adj.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 140: We must double-bank my horse [...] till we’re clear of the place; we didn’t want to bring a lot of horses about.
at double-bank, v.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 72: Starlight has been barneying with me about sending for you.
at barney, v.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 374: I’m sorry [...] that I had that barney with Warrigal.
at barney, n.2
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 260: A cove comes tearing up at full bat.
at at full bat (adv.) under bat, n.3
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 255: I’ve half a mind to belt you home again to your mother.
at belt, v.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 48: I could hardly stand for laughing, till the calf gave him best and walked.
at give someone best (v.) under best (of it), n.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (2006) 114: It’ll be a short life and a merry one, though, dad, if we go on big licks like this.
at go in/on big licks (v.) under big licks, n.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 64: He said he’d give him a billet on the run — make him under-overseer.
at billet, n.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 266: Jim and I and Starlight were not likely to blab.
at blab, v.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 348: You’ve been doing it fine at the Turon races along with a lot of blasted swells.
at blasted, adj.1
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 245: How the blazes did he know the police were laid on to the lot of us?
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 55: Blest if I understand a word of it.
at blessed, adj.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 127: He blew up the squatters in a general way for taking all the country, and not giving the poor man a chance.
at blow up, v.1
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 79: We told him the cattle would fetch that much more money on account of the lunch and the blowing the auctioneer was able to do.
at blowing, n.3
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 177: One of them had just opened out for a bit of blowing. ‘Billy, old man [...] I’ll report you to the Company if you crawl along this way.’.
at blowing, n.3
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 77: If they heard about the job being blown or the police set on our track, they were to wire to one of the border townships we had to pass.
at blown, adj.
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 266: When we thought it over carefully [...] when we were a bit nevous after the grog had died out of us, it seemed rather a blue look-out.
at blue, adj.1
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 36: You haven’t got to do with the old-fashioned mounted police that was potterin’ about when this ‘bot’ was first hit on.
at bot, n.1
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