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Breathing Spaces choose

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[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 10: He’s had a few in, all right.
at have a few (v.) under few, a, n.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 81: Drink that up and you’ll be right as a bank.
at right as a bank (adj.) under bank, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 49: Dee Street was empty as a tomb except for a bobby standing in the library doorway.
at bobby, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 93: ‘Boozer’s gloom,’ he said and, as if to shake it off, made to sit up.
at boozer’s gloom, n.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 95: Me and Boxer are in the same canoe, aren’t we, Boxer?
at in the same box under box, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 89: She’s even after the loving couples at night if they curl up there for a canoodle.
at canoodle, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 46: You felt the place wasn’t such a dead-alive hole, after all.
at dead alive (adj.) under dead, adj.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 46: We all had a good dekko back to see what the girls were up to.
at dekko, n.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 95: ‘Talks just like a dinkum dig,’ Ted said.
at dig, n.4
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 81: I’ve brought us a couple of double-headers.
at double-header (n.) under double, adj.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 10: This was a facer. They were afraid he’d get wild.
at facer, n.2
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 37: A fat lot you care for Dad’s plants.
at fat lot (n.) under fat, adj.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 165: Not pygmalion likely, if you’ll excuse my French.
at excuse my French under French, n.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 47: Now, Jean, don’t be an old fusspot.
at fusspot, n.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 46: Wally called back in an extra-polite voice [...] he could put on the gyver so well when he wanted to.
at put on the guiver (v.) under guiver, n.2
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 96: We’ll have to get hold of a little sheila for you as well [...] I’ll get one jacked up for you, trust me.
at jack up, v.3
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 81: There were two full whisky nobblers.
at nobbler, n.3
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 89: What was she making all that palaver about?
at palaver, n.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 97: ‘She’s jake, boys, don’t panic,’ Ted said. ‘Don’t do your scones.’.
at do one’s scone (v.) under scone, n.2
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 95: Darby was a neighbour of ours and we used to cook up our scran over at his place.
at scran, n.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 29: Get behind a bush with your shangeye and plenty of stones.
at shanghai, n.2
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 58: Give me that slasher.
at slasher, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 10: ‘Smooging won’t get you out of it,’ she said.
at smoodge, v.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 89: She’s a funny old stick.
at stick, n.
[NZ] D. Davin Breathing Spaces 124: Here they come [...] the dirty stop outs.
at stop-out (n.) under stop, v.
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