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[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 105: It wouldn’t be the Army if you weren’t buggered about.
at bugger about, v.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 30: I’ve been piling up ackers in my paybook. [Ibid.] 43: ‘Better take my share of the ackerage’ [...] Frank gave him a note.
at acker, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 75: I saved a nip of whiskey for this morning as a deoch and doris.
at dock-and-doris, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 110: Can’t they bloody well see there’s the father and mother of a counter-attack going to come down on Bel Hamed?
at father (and mother) of..., n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 51: ‘Old Sexy just got out of hospital to-day. Remember him?’ ‘The bloke that got it in the tool at Galatos?’ ‘That’s the bloke. And a humdinger he had too. At shortarm inspection the M.O. used to go green with envy.’.
at short-arm inspection (n.) under short arm, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 300: ‘Well, I’ll be torn up for arsepaper,’ said Pat Murphy.
at tear someone up for arse-paper, v.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 258: Oh, a lot of profanity about [...] colonels who were too dumb to know if their arses were on fire.
at not know if one’s arse was on fire (v.) under arse, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 329: They’re all to hell out there, sir. Don’t know whether they’re on their arse or their elbow.
at not know one’s arse/ass from one’s elbow (v.) under arse, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 311: Tom Bluey stumbled and would have fallen if Tom by a guess in the dark hadn’t caught his arm in time. ‘Black as the inside of a Taranaki cow,’ Bluey muttered.
at black as..., adj.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 112: I’ll never call them Rare as Fairies again.
at rare as rocking horse manure, as, phr.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 377: He was a good bloke but mad as a snake when he got his blood up.
at ...a cut snake under mad as..., adj.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 209: A man couldn’t have those bloody redarses telling him what to do.
at red ass, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 76: The Colonel had come out, mad as a meat-axe.
at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 301: You’ve no idea what a good joker Alister was. He was one out of the box, was Alister.
at one out of the bag, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 112: If only they haven’t ballsed up the bomb-line we gave them.
at balls up, v.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 301: ‘How’s the leg, Rusty?’ asked Frank [...] ‘Right as a bank. No trouble at all.’.
at right as a bank (adj.) under bank, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 368: A man’s got to hand it to these gingerbeers of ours.
at ginger beer, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 294: I think we gave Pavia a pretty hard belt.
at belt, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 75: Well, there she is, sir, and a pretty good binder, too [...] Curried sausages.
at binder, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 103: If I had a fine bludger’s job like this I’d take it seriously.
at bludger, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 209: ‘Having a good time?’ ‘She’s a blue duck.’.
at blue duck (n.) under blue, adj.1
[NZ] D. Davin For Rest of our Lives 96: The next thing he’ll do is counter-attack, boots and all.
at boots (and all) (adv.) under boot, n.2
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 75: All the boys still drinking to celebrate the Second Ech coming from England [...] And the whole lot of them thinking: well here’s for a last good boozeroo.
at boozeroo, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 209: Those bastards are too bloody fond of poking the borax at a bloke just back from the blue.
at poke (the) borak (v.) under borak, n.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 260: Bowler-hatted me? No, not exactly. But they’ve offered me a trip to England.
at bowler-hatted, adj.
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 168: Saved from the consciousness of impending extinction by the smallness of his brainpan. His brain was bigger now than then, too big for immunity from fear.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 375: Let’s see what sort of brush the Ities go for.
at brush, n.4
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 111: You’d better strip to the buff. I’ve got a clean shirt for you.
at buff, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 240: Cooked up a bit of leave. The bugger of it was that the truck that gave me a lift had a breakdown.
at bugger, n.1
[NZ] D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 114: The LO says that the full-scale counter-attack they told us about got buggered up.
at buggered up (adj.) under bugger up, v.
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