2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 155: Save the taxpayer the expense of further buggering around. Those forensic tests cost a poultice.at bugger about, v.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 39: You’d think Melbourne’s ace crime reporter would have more newsowrthy leads to pursue.at ace, adj.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 224: Gilpin’s stony-broke and woofing bonkers [...] and he thinks you’re the cut-and-come-again pudding.at cut-and-come-again, adj.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 141: Carrying on like they’d just pulled a major swiftie [...] And hitting the amber pretty hard.at amber, n.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 186: An undertaking to steal votes from Phil Sebastian [...] was documentary evidence that he was conspiring to white-ant his liege-lord, Alan Metcalfe.at white-ant, v.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 152: Sometimes it’s [i.e. success] down to kissing arse.at kiss someone’s arse, v.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 8: Half a dozen of us trooping round the back-blocks [...] It had been a proper pain in the bum.at pain in the arse, n.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 156: He was the hairy-arsed champion of the underdog. We were a cabal of limp-writsed pen-pushers.at hairy-arsed, adj.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 169: He’s all hopped up [...] Mad as a cut snake.at ...a cut snake under mad as..., adj.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 39: I’m a bit behind the eight-ball on the twilight of the Municipals.at behind the eight ball, phr.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 119: A man in a faded flannel shirt with a beer gut and a head like a pontiac potato.at beer gut (n.) under beer, n.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 231: ‘Sorry, mate. Thought it was my ex.’ ‘Which one?’ [...] ‘Mind your own beeswax,’ he said.at beeswax, n.2
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 237: Margot had a glass in her hand and several under her belt.at under one’s belt under belt, n.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 165: More than thirty grand all up [...] Big bikkies in those days.at bikkies, n.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 30: Boilerplate stuff — a paste-up of reports from the state branches.at boilerplate, n.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 205: He was home hitting the books. Did I have any thoughts on the consequences of the French Revolution?at hit the books, v.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 84: He thought I was an over-educated, up-myself nancy boy.at nancy boy, n.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 89: A group of hyperactive boyos who were hogging the pool table.at boyo, n.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 65: I wasn’t there to bat the breeze.at bat the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 210: In the meantime I should butt out and stop making promises.at butt out, v.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 270: ‘Cut the cackle, Alan,’ Quinlan elbowed him aside.at cut the cackle (v.) under cackle, n.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 9: The paramedics got there pretty fast but he was cactus by the time we reached the hospital.at cactus, adj.
2007 S. Maloney Sucked In 69: [A] carrot-haired young man in a boxy suit.at carrot-headed (adj.) under carrot, n.