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Four Australian Plays choose

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[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene viii: You’re crawling up Hendo’s arse.
at arse crawl (v.) under arse, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: You had a quick J. Arthur, didn’t you, Presto?
at J. Arthur (Rank), n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: Reckons [...] the old man’s going to cough up for a B.
at B, n.2
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: I’m not the sort of bloke who big-notes himself.
at big-note, v.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene ix: I don’t kow-tow to any bloody bigwig nob.
at bigwig, adj.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: Do the overall tallies in the squares provided on the bizzo.
at bizzo, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene ii: I don’t like those la-di-da hoity-toity upper-crust bludgers with their fancy accents, so I chucked Lord Muck out the window.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: Then he raced out to the john for an Edgar Britt.
at Edgar Britt, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: Ar bulls. I reckon it’d be a pretty soft cop being a back-room boy.
at bulls, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene ii: Jesus F. Christ!
at Jesus H. Christ!, excl.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: thomo: All right, you blokes, let’s get on with the work, eh? jacko: Righto, Thomo, righto. You’re a bit of a conch this morning, aren’t you? thomo: Well, there’s work to be done.
at conch, n.2
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene xii: Gibbo? He couldn’t manage a piss-up at a brewery.
at couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery under couldn’t..., phr.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene viii: Come on now . . . dig deep . . . pay up.
at dig down (v.) under dig, v.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene xi: Shut your big gob, you pie-faced poonce.
at pie-faced, adj.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: I’d be down by the pool or out for a fang in the Jag.
at fang, v.2
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: You’d get a fat as you went in and it’d take about twenty minutes to have a squirt.
at fat, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene iv: Been down the pub for lunch? [...] ‘Yeah, had a glass of steak with Barry Anderson.’.
at glass of lunch (n.) under glass, n.2
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys in Four Aus. Plays (1970) 60: Get back to work or I’ll dob you in to Hendo, and that’s the good oil.
at good oil (n.) under good, adj.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene xii: Ar shut your guts!
at shut one’s guts (v.) under gut, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: All right Thomo, keep your hairs on.
at keep your hair on! (excl.) under keep one’s hair on, v.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: Robbo, you old jackeroo.
at jackaroo, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: We used to go down to Jim Buckley’s [...] for a liquid lunch.
at liquid lunch (n.) under liquid, adj.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene vii: Oh have I got a joke for you, folks, this is a lu-lu.
at lulu, n.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene vii: I’ll be back to talk to you [...] because I’m ‘Mr Nice Guy’, and you like me a lot.
at Mr Nice Guy (n.) under Mr, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: gibbo: Are these the new type of report, Robbo? robbo: Yeah, these are the newies.
at newie, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene i: Don wrote off his sprite. [...] Took a hairpin at eighty and ruptured himself on the dashboard.
at write off, v.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene xi: Shut your big gob, you pie-faced poonce.
at poonce, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene xi: I bet it’s [a horse] a roughie.
at roughie, n.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene xii: gibbo: He led her up the garden path and stabbed her in the back. robbo: That’s a bit of a rude act.
at rude, adj.
[Aus] A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene v: Aaah, get a battered sav and shove it.
at battered sav (n.) under sav, n.1
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