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The Sundowners choose

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[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 124: Christ, the way we’re arsing about —.
at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 42: Without me specs I might fall arse-over-Charlie down the stairs. [Ibid.] 205: This has sort of bowled me arse over Charlie.
at arse over Charlie under arse, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 207: You all think I’m a tight-arsed bastard, just because I want the money meself, instead of giving it to the kid.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 157: They’d just think the long-legged bastard was off his rock and ring up Callan Park.
at Callan Park, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 79: Coming up here, starting out from scratch without a cracker, nothing but their hands [...] and a lot of hope.
at cracker, n.4
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 13: I’m glad you’re built like you are, darl. Plenty of it.
at darl, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 194: I don’t think he’s dingoing the race.
at dingo, v.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 227: It looked like being an ideal day for a beer and an ear-bash.
at earbash, v.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 264: I’ll die decently drunk [...] a plonk fiend, maybe even drinking metho.
at fiend, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 13: Don’t let me ever catch you looking at any flappers. Or anything in skirts.
at flapper, n.2
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 138: They’re [sheep-shearers] at it now, going like scalded cats.
at go like a cut cat (v.) under go like..., v.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 240: He’s in the hole for over fifty quid.
at in the hole (adj.) under hole, n.1
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 208: ‘Holy cripes,’ Ocker Shand said.
at holy cripes! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 217: A kid [...] hanging on to it’s mother’s tit, not caring a hoot about how the rest of the world was going.
at give a hoot (v.) under hoot, n.2
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 122: Well, that puts the kybosh on it.
at kibosh, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 13: Don’t let me catch you looking at any flappers. Or [...] I’ll kick you in the you-know-where.
at you know where, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 192: Here’m I, up for twenty — quid, and he backs out like a yellow-livered quean!
at white-livered, adj.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 213: You’ve been flat out like a lizard drinking, but this cove is right with you all the time.
at flat out like a lizard drinking under lizard, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 240: Look at him. You’d think he was ready to go off his nut.
at go off one’s nut (v.) under nut, n.1
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 151: ‘Keep going, Ocker,’ Bluey said. ‘We didn’t know you were a philosopher.’.
at ocker, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 214: You’re talking as if we have had the pants licked off us.
at lick the pants off (v.) under pants, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 153: Mind if I park the rear end beside you for a while?
at park, v.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 120: You’re a well-padded piece of goods.
at piece of goods (n.) under piece, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 42: Going for the lick of his coit up the street.
at go for one’s quoits (v.) under quoit, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 138: By the end of the day he wanted to be the ‘ringer’ shearer.
at ringer, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 325: Let’s scratch Our Place and we’ll pack up and get out of here.
at scratch, v.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 197: A woman might just as well be without what she’s got under her shimmy.
at shimmy, n.1
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 208: I ain’t trying to skin you on this one.
at skin, v.1
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 154: Rupe sounds like a spruiker from the Domain. That how you spend your Sunday arvos, Rupe? Belly-aching against the way the country’s run?
at spruiker, n.
[Aus] J. Cleary Sundowners 71: ‘Looks pretty crook,’ Paddy said. ‘You been having a bad trot?’ ‘Terrible.’.
at trot, n.2
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