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[Aus] J. Doughty Gold in Blood 175: They were all prospectors who had spent their lives ‘chasing the pennyweight.’.
at chase the (penny)weight (v.) under chase, v.
[Aus] J. Doughty Gold in Blood 131: [a car] I got blisters with cranking. She refused even to cough. ‘We’ll tow the cow,’ Jim said.
at cow, n.1
[Aus] J. Doughty Gold in Blood 175: ‘Yeah, for cripe’s sake, let it rain,’ the drunken congregation chorused.
at for cripes’ sake!, excl.
[Aus] J. Doughty Gold in Blood 251: Like a lot of bloody niggers on pink-eye.
at pink-eye, n.
[Aus] J. Doughty Gold in Blood 256: A thousand years hence it would be the same, the eternal Never-Never.
at never-never, the, n.1
[Aus] J. Doughty Gold in Blood 131: I jacked up the Lizzie’s driving wheel.
at tin lizzie (n.) under tin, adj.
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