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[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 25: And the people – they’d take you to their hearts. Everyone from Alice Springs to breakfast time.
at from Alice Springs to breakfast time under Alice Springs, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 19: Course, you wouldn’t find that sort of thing around these days. Rare as a pregnant nun.
at rare as rocking horse manure, as, phr.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 22: Start off with a billy-cart and finish up with a fleet of Boeing 727s.
at billy-cart, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 6: That’s where old Captain Cook landed, Botany Bay. Must have given the boongs a fright, eh?
at boong, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed 20: A bloke at work said he didn’t see the point of bringing a whole lot of boongs out here.
at boong, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 6: ahmed : I am studying it at the university. norm : You’re out at the old brain drainer, eh?
at brain drainer (n.) under brain, n.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 18: In this world there’s too many blokes getting in for their chop and not worrying about their mates.
at chop, n.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 25: They’ve improved a lot, these clubs. Twenty years ago they weren’t much chop.
at not much chop under no chop, phr.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 13: Why doesn’t your old man send you a few bob to help you along? You wouldn’t have to flog your chops too much then.
at flog one’s chops (v.) under chops, n.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 21: You’re not like all those chows down in Dixon Street that jabber away in Chinese half the time.
at Chow, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 15: He’s a real cluey bloke, no risk.
at cluey, adj.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 23: I just crap on and spoil it all.
at crap on (about) (v.) under crap, v.2
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 7: Ar come on, Ahmed, don’t give us that. Don’t be a creamer all your life. Tell me a bad point.
at creamer, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 16: But now she’s gone and where am I? Up the creek without a paddle!
at up the creek (without a paddle) under creek, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 17: Eh, come on Ahmed, now don’t have a wetty. No offence meant. You’re not angry, are you? Eh?
at eh?, phr.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 24: Mention my name to the bloke on the door and you’ll be in like the proverbial Flynn.
at in like Flynn, phr.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 8: Some of our blokes were easy pickings for those bastards. Fruit on the sideboard.
at fruit for the sideboard (n.) under fruit, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 26: Fuckin’ boong.
at fucking, adj.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 25: Just a place to go when you wanted to get on the grog.
at on the grog (adj.) under grog, n.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 8: You see, they’re a cunning lot, those Gyppos.
at gyppo, n.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 24: Go up with your mates and get on the hops.
at on the hops under hop, n.2
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 8: I apprehended him and jobbed him one.
at job, v.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 12: I administered a knuckle sandwich to him.
at knuckle sandwich (n.) under knuckle, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 23: And when I find someone to talk to, I just mag away like an old woman and ruin everything.
at mag, v.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed 31: Mind you, though, if a mug copper ever started pushing me around, I’d job him good and proper, no risk about that.
at mug copper (n.) under mug, n.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 15: He’s a real cluey bloke, no risk.
at no risk, phr.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 12: He tried to hang one on me.
at hang one on (v.) under one, n.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 4: You think I’m like those poofters in Hyde Park who go around soliciting blokes.
at poofter, n.
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 26: norm: Put ’er there, mate. (He offers his hand).
at put it there! (excl.) under put, v.1
[Aus] A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 24: Find yourself a good woman, something more than just a weekend root.
at root, n.1
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