1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 135: ‘They don’t give a fuck for walls,’ said Red, ‘but they do like a roof for the rain.’.at not give a fuck, v.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 23: She knew when [...] to refuse payment altogether if the artist seemed set on a blinder.at blinder, n.3
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 46: Hadn’t slept a wink for five days. All these truckies feed on amphetamines! [...] No wonder he was a little blotto!at blotto, adj.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 35: The boy was shrieking blue murder and frothing from the sides of his mouth.at blue murder, n.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 48: ‘Everyone wants to look up Father Dan,’ he said. ‘Until they get the brush-off.’.at get the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 134: Myrtle sucked her thumb and stared, bug-eyed, at the Queen’s diamonds.at bug-eyed, adj.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 52: The leading lawman of Tribe C had the unforgettable name of Cheekybugger Tabagee.at bugger, n.1
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 276: ‘Yes,’ he chuckled. ‘I bummed the Chief of Police ... in Nice!’.at bum, v.3
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 141: He and his black friends would ‘go bush’ for days on end.at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 52: The leading lawman of Tribe C had the unforgettable name of Cheekybugger Tabagee.at cheeky, adj.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 33: And what makes you think you can show up from Merrie Old England and clean up on sacred knowledge?at clean up, v.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 90: Run over a coon in Alice Springs and no one’d give it a thought. But a white man ...!at coon, n.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 75: An ‘Eski’, for ‘Eskimo’, is a polystyrene cool-pack without which a journey into the desert is unthinkable.at esky, n.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 30: Its author, a former Marxist, insisted that the Aboriginal Land Rights Movement was a ‘front’ for Soviet expansion in Australia.at front, n.1
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines 17: I went to Africa, to the Sudan. [...] This was nomad country – the nomads being the Beja: Kipling’s ‘fuzzy-wuzzies’.at fuzzy-wuzzy, n.1