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They’re a Weird Mob choose

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[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 47: ‘She’s worn out.’ ‘Pigs she is. There’s a lot of life in ’er yet.’.
at pig’s arse!, excl.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 72: Bob came out of ut all right, didn’ yer Bob? Tin arse Bob they call ’im.
at tin-arsed, adj.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 153: No rabbits appeared. ‘Give ut away,’ Joe said.
at give it away, v.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 53: Dagoes an’ Jerries an’ Balts an’ Poles an’ Lithu-bloody-wanians?
at Balt, n.2
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 77: ‘To-morrow we make the concrete.’ ‘Yeah. She’s a bastard.’.
at bastard, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 190: ‘Bats,’ he said. ‘Nutty as a fruit cake,’ said Pat.
at bats, adj.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 165: You drew a blank with me, because of Charlie, drat him.
at draw a blank (v.) under blank, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 13: How difficult it is for the foreigner, who has learned good English from books, to understand what the blazes they are yapping about!
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 79: Stay with us as long as yer can. Then sing out an’ I’ll give y’a blow.
at blow, n.3
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 79: Then yer swing ’er over ter Pat again, an’ ’ave a bludge while ’e’s fillin’ ’er up.
at bludge, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 204: He fears no one, crawls to no one, bludges on no one, and acknowledges no master.
at bludge, v.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 203: A bludger is the worst thing you can be in Australia. It means that you are criminally lazy, that you ‘pole on yer mates’, that you are a ‘piker’—a mean, contemptible, miserable individual who is not fit to associate with human beings.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 109: I would have liked a plate and a fork, but I bogged in, with the others.
at bog in, v.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 5: I say: ‘Thanks mate. Yer blood’s worth bottling’.
at bottling, adj.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 88: Wot about ’im comin’ ter the bucks’ party Fridy night?
at buck party (n.) under buck, n.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 61: If yer too bloody pigheaded to take a warnin’, yer c’n go ter b———.
at go to buggery! (excl.) under buggery, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 156: Good English, used in conversation, appears stilted and insincere. My Australian friends say that a man who uses it is not fair dinkum. They say he ‘is bungin’ ut on’.
at bung (it) on (v.) under bung, v.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 174: ‘Yer c’n ’ave a coupla middies.’ ‘A coupla middies? Yer know wot yer c’n do.’.
at you know what you can do (with...), phr.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 47: ‘Carburettor, matey,’ said Joe. ‘We’ll start on the carby.’.
at carby, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 168: All right, champ. The damsel is not in distress.
at champ, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 203: So watch it, Charlie. Return all shouts, pull your weight on the job, if you have cigarettes offer them to others; if a man does you a favour, return it sometime.
at charlie, n.2
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 106: Gees, Nino, yer done up like a pox doctor’s clerk. Yer don’ need no coat an’ a collar an’ tie.
at done up like a pox doctor’s clerk under pox-doctor’s clerk, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 46: Dennis said, with a very affected English accent, ‘What he means, old cock, is that your stomach requires nourishment.’.
at old cock, n.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 116: Moody bastards. [...] They’ll come good in a minute.
at come good (v.) under come, v.3
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 39: I reckon you’ll conk out about lunchtime.
at conk (out), v.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 46: ‘Gunna be a bastard tryin’ to find a dry spot.’ ‘Hunt up a cow.’ .
at chase (up) a cow (v.) under cow, n.1
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 73: Wish ’e’d brought this crab in.
at crab, n.3
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 15: Cut the bull. An’ don’ call me sir.
at cut the crap, v.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 73: ‘Ut wasn’t pulled. Ut was dead’.
at dead, adj.
[Aus] ‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 118: Bill’s goin’ round collectin’ subs. Ten deaners a head.
at deener, n.
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