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Hang On a Minute, Mate choose

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[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 182: Drunk as a skunk he was.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 64: Tonker slammed on the anchors, went into a beautiful slide.
at anchor, n.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 52: Old Andy mad as a gum-digger’s dog.
at mad as..., adj.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 55: The dawn was as cold as an axe-head.
at ...a polar bear’s behind under cold as..., adj.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 180: He’d been on the booze and finished up the night before on a bottle of meths or Aussie whisky or something.
at Aussie, adj.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 18: Don’t get your back up, mate.
at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 125: Left them holding the bag if you ask me.
at hold the bag, v.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 191: I couldn’t even go on the bash when we were cashed-up.
at on the bash under bash, v.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 182: A waster and a vagabond the beak said.
at beak, n.1
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 45: A man working as hard as they were couldn’t be expected to keep going without a feed under his belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 163: When he’s got a few in he goes berko.
at berko, adj.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 148: If you ever want to take on a woman you’ve got to decide whether it’s going to be worth it if she can’t take the knocks and starts bitching at you.
at bitching, n.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 27: I tell you, Jack me boy, it gave a man the Joe Blakes just to look at it.
at joe blakes, n.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 147: They’re the ones who don’t like blowing up in front of visitors.
at blow up, v.1
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 191: Yes, but ... But be blowed.
at blowed, adj.1
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 17: Trouble with you blokes is you won’t admit when you’ve made a blue.
at blue, n.4
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 101: Food, cried Jack, and a petrol pump! They pushed the Ford the last thirty yards to the bowser and went into the bar.
at bowser, n.3
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 68: The hospital people at Kaitaia were getting a bit brassed off with Tonker.
at brassed off, adj.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 24: You’ve got no idea the work and expense we’ve put into this old bus.
at bus, n.2
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 164: Some gate-crashing bush-whackers had picked on one of their blokes.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 61: There’s nothing much to learn in the fishing caper, Jack.
at caper, n.2
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 91: We’ll have to stick a pipe in the top of the tank and set a siphon going to the carb.
at carb, n.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 191: I couldn’t even go on the bash when we were cashed-up.
at cashed up, adj.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 18: The first chariot my mate claps his eye on is a taxi.
at chariot, n.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 136: If it wasn’t for Dan Porter and his rubber cheque we’d have been miles away by now.
at rubber cheque, n.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 164: It was all round the district that I’d cleaned up a whole gang of bushmen on my own.
at clean up, v.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 113: Have to tell him the dog got run over and the bloke who did it gave us five quid compo.
at compo, n.
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 62: A shanty he’d made out of timber and drums that had been washed up on the beach or swiped and bludged from the cow-cockies a few miles inland.
at cow cocky (n.) under cow, n.1
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 18: I ran out of gas [...] Ten o’clock at night, and we never had a cracker.
at cracker, n.4
[NZ] B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 68: He got another four months tacked on for crook conduct.
at crook, adj.
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