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[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 52: Cold enough ter freeze ’em orf a brass monkey, an’ no place ter sleep.
at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 208: Couldn’ handle the work after you shot through an’ left me like a shag on a rack.
at like a shag on a rock under like a..., phr.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 140: ‘You savvy our lingo pretty good. How’d yer come ter latch onto ut?’ ‘Come?’.
at come again!, excl.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 8: A man would need plenty of arse to pinch another bloke’s book.
at arse, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 69: I reckon we been got at.
at get at, v.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 154: Give yer the drum, Mister Risky [...] Come to Aussie an’ start spoutin’ Commo bull an’ the mob’ll wipe yer.
at Aussie, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 103: Spend the week-end with yer old man, an’ then give ut away, eh?
at give it away, v.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 15: Ironed me bloody socks yesterday. Put fruit salts in the gravy the night before. Mad as a meat-axe she is.
at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 159: Yer gotta keep on their backs.
at on someone’s back (adj.) under back, n.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 16: When they start gettin’ on yer back ut’s time ter dong ’em or shoot through ter the pub.
at get on someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 145: Got ut all ballsed up, o’ course.
at ballsed-up, adj.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 189: ‘You have had a good time in Germany, Dennis?’ ‘Beaut Max.’.
at beaut!, excl.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 84: She’s a beaut buildin’, but.
at beaut, adj.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 197: You blokes’re done up like sore fingers. Wot’s the idea?
at what’s the (big) idea?, phr.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 15: Looks at a trey-bit four times before ’e spends ut.
at trey-bit, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 164: He was riding down a hill track on the back of a small cooter, driven by a large ex-Italian. When we reached home he said, ‘Glad we didn’t ride one o’ those bone-shakers all the way from Mannheim’.
at bone-shaker (n.) under bone, n.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 41: One bop on the scone an’ they stay down. Can’t improve on that.
at bop, n.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 60: ‘You bastard,’ Dennis said. ‘You bottler,’ Joe said. [Ibid.] 199: An’ yer couldn’ make a better choice, matey. She’s a little bottler.
at bottler, n.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 80: ‘Merci, messieurs,’ he said. Dennis said, ‘Mercy buckup ter you too, mate.’.
at mercy buckets, phr.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 52: [He] said he had been in Australia for fifteen years. I asked him why he had left it. He said, ‘Buggered if I know.’.
at buggered if I know under buggered, adj.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 189: ‘The bloody train’s gone.’ ‘Wodda yer mean gone? Gone where?’ ‘Gone ter buggery. There’s only one carriage behind this one.’.
at gone to buggery (adj.) under buggery, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 36: ‘Is there anything I can get for you, Joe?’ ‘Yeah. Get ter buggery.’.
at go to buggery! (excl.) under buggery, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 35: Noothin’ can be seen with it. The thing’s on the boom.
at on the bum (adj.) under bum, adj.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 216: So a coupla blokes come back from Italy or wherever they bloody been an’ bung on the lah-de-dah.
at bung on (v.) under bung, v.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 23: Couldn’t do it in the time, but.
at but, adv.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 148: Stop runnin’ around like a blue-arsed fly, Nino. Sit down an’ drink yer plonk. Yer makin’ me nervous.
at buzz around like a blue-arsed fly (v.) under buzz, v.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 77: We’ve ’ad some queer drinks, but that takes the cake.
at take the cake, v.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 12: ‘How about a loan?’ ‘Yer know wot you c’n do, don’t yer?’.
at you know what you can do (with...), phr.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 159: I sez, ‘Yer know wot yer c’n do with those, Charlie.’.
at charlie, n.2
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 75: Never seen so much grog an’ tucker in me life. Cheap as dirt too.
at cheap as dirt (adj.) under cheap, adj.
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