1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 8: A man would need plenty of arse to pinch another bloke’s book.at arse, n.
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 159: Yer gotta keep on their backs.at on someone’s back (adj.) under back, n.1
1960 ‘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
1960 ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 189: ‘You have had a good time in Germany, Dennis?’ ‘Beaut Max.’.at beaut!, excl.
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 15: Looks at a trey-bit four times before ’e spends ut.at trey-bit, n.
1960 ‘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
1960 ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 41: One bop on the scone an’ they stay down. Can’t improve on that.at bop, n.1
1960 ‘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
1960 ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 80: ‘Merci, messieurs,’ he said. Dennis said, ‘Mercy buckup ter you too, mate.’.at mercy buckets, phr.
1960 ‘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
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘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
1960 ‘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
1960 ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 77: We’ve ’ad some queer drinks, but that takes the cake.at take the cake, v.
1960 ‘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.
1960 ‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 159: I sez, ‘Yer know wot yer c’n do with those, Charlie.’.at charlie, n.2
1960 ‘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.