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The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya choose

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[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 303: Would he like to come over [...] for a baked chicken dinner that night? Is the Pope a catholic?
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 59: ‘We are off this time, are we,’ asked Les. ‘Like a bride’s nightie’.
at off like a bride’s nightie under off like a..., phr.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 11: That rather large,bustling city between Newcastle and Wollongong known affectionately as ‘The Old Steak and Kidney’.
at steak and kidney, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 15: This Kilby’s got me by the bloody short-and-curlies.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 156: A dubbo like you would be arsey enough to fluke something like this.
at arsey, adj.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 141: ‘So your boss is quite happy, eh?’ [...] ‘Yeah. Happy as the proverbial pig in shit’.
at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 156: They’re as rare as rocking-horse shit [...] the first of their kind ever found here.
at rare as rocking horse manure, as, phr.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 195: I make out I’m mad as a meat axe [...] Pleading insanity and diminished responsibility.
at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 59: ‘I met him the second time he was over there’ [i.e. Vietnam] ‘Yeah. Eddie backed up a second time, didn’t he? With the Yanks’.
at back up, v.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 94: I wouldn’t mind backin’ up at the Tai-Ping for another lash at those muddies.
at back up, v.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 185: It didn’t take Les long to realise he was bad news. He was a brute of a man[...] ‘You,’ he snarkled. ‘Fuck off’.
at bad news, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 167: Look, if you’re going bad I’ll pay it [i.e. a fine].
at go bad (v.) under bad, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 205: Bored looking bags in bikinis wearing big sunglasses.
at bag, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 226: You’ve been bagging Balmain all year.
at bag, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 181: Max suggested that if either of them needed a crap, to bake it until they opened the cell door.
at bake it (v.) under bake, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 15: He’s got me by the nuts.
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 21: Price is giving me a pretty good bank to get this together.
at bank, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 15: Can you imagine the headlines [...] ‘Casino Operator Sends Thugs in to Bash Aborgininal Welfare Officer’.
at bash, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 198: He’s bladed other prisoners. He hit a guard over the head with a piece of pipe.
at blade, v.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 97: That’s the way we work, bloodnut. If you don’t like it — stiff shit.
at bloodnut (n.) under blood, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 113: Look at that thing they’re dragging into the wagon. She’s just about blowing in her pants.
at blow, v.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 193: Most of the pinches are just rorts [...] so they can pay the wages for all the bludging public servants in this state.
at bludge, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 166: There’s a bluey up here for you [...] Failure to produce driver’s license.
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 164: Those old lags [...] They’d be into your blurter before you could whistle.
at blurter, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 13: An Abo. I’m being shafted by a rotten fuckin’ boong.
at boong, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 141: Kilby’s brown bread. He had a heart attack in the club.
at brown bread, adj.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 292: Only brokies and backpackers doing it on the cheap ever catch the Uncle Gus.
at brokie, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 213: ‘You going to the Sheaf tonight Woz?’ [...] ‘No, I think I’ll brush it’.
at brush, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 17: One poor, skinny spook from Redfern’s put the bustle on you and you’ve all shit yourselves.
at put the bustle on (v.) under bustle, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 180: Well, if that doesn’t take the cake, he chuckled to himself.
at take the cake, v.
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