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[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 132: We strung him along quite nicely.
at string (along), v.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 121: Lots of shearers wait until they’ve knocked up a good fat cheque and then [...] blue it all at the pub.
at blew, v.2
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 222: I’m keeping my eye on the whole boiling lot of you, and that’s flat.
at whole boiling lot, n.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 224: I’m not the sort to cackle, you know.
at cackle, v.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 12: Get a lung full of that [...] it’s something chronic.
at something chronic (n.) under chronic, adj.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 169: We’re real pals, aren’t we? [...] Real chums. Cobbers?
at cobber, n.2
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 186: Have it your own way, you blasted cow.
at cow, n.1
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 153: Douglas [...] trod in a pool of blood. ‘And did he go crook!’.
at crook, adj.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 203: ‘Hell and damnation!’ said Allen violently.
at damnation!, excl.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 126: She hated swaggers. Most stations give them their tucker and a doss-down for the night.
at doss-down (n.) under doss, n.1
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 182: You shut your face or I’ll knock your bloody block off.
at shut one’s face (v.) under face, n.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 40: He went for long drives [...] and fagged about from one meeting to another.
at fag, v.3
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 126: He accused the ‘fleecies’ of having interfered with his overalls.
at fleecy, n.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 202: Think I don’t know a Jerry when I get one [...] Not yet, Fritzy, darling.
at Fritz, n.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 192: ‘Gemini!’ ‘I beg pardon, Mr Allen?’.
at gemini!, excl.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 184: Comes the holy Jo over a drop of Johnny Walker.
at holy Joe, n.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 60: Flossie had always said the Japs would weigh in on our side when war time.
at weigh in, v.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 121: Lots of shearers wait until they’ve knocked up a good fat cheque and then [...] blue it all at the pub.
at knock up, v.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 239: Inviting them to come and have another pop at you, sir? is that the lay? Taking a risk, aren’t you?
at lay, n.3
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 223: I’m sorry if i got my rag out, sir.
at get one’s rag out (v.) under rag, n.1
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 133: I handed myself the raspberry in six different positions.I did indeed.
at give someone the raspberry (v.) under raspberry, n.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 181: Haven’t they got some of the right stuff?
at right stuff, n.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 166: Dad [...] used to sling of at me for it.
at sling off (at) (v.) under sling, v.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 145: There’ll be a smoke-oh in ten minutes.
at smoko, n.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 205: Albie‘s dead to the world. Soaked.
at soaked, adj.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 188: He stinks. He’s a toad.
at stink, v.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 234: ‘You’re trying to swing one across me.’ ‘No.’.
at swing (it) on (v.) under swing, v.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 80: Why on earth, I wonder, have you produced this ridiculous tarradiddle.
at taradiddle, n.
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 233: Albie had the wind up [...] I’d say he’d taken the whisky.
at get one’s/the wind up (v.) under wind, n.2
[NZ] N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 60: He’d got a wizard of a camera.
at wizard, adj.
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