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[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 155: Save the taxpayer the expense of further buggering around. Those forensic tests cost a poultice.
at bugger about, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 39: You’d think Melbourne’s ace crime reporter would have more newsowrthy leads to pursue.
at ace, adj.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 141: Carrying on like they’d just pulled a major swiftie [...] And hitting the amber pretty hard.
at amber, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 152: Sometimes it’s [i.e. success] down to kissing arse.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 169: He’s all hopped up [...] Mad as a cut snake.
at ...a cut snake under mad as..., adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In Fuck that lard-arse, he had it coming.
at lard-ass, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 231: ‘Sorry, mate. Thought it was my ex.’ ‘Which one?’ [...] ‘Mind your own beeswax,’ he said.
at beeswax, n.2
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 165: More than thirty grand all up [...] Big bikkies in those days.
at bikkies, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 30: Boilerplate stuff — a paste-up of reports from the state branches.
at boilerplate, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 224: Gilpin’s stony-broke and woofing bonkers.
at bonkers, adj.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 84: He thought I was an over-educated, up-myself nancy boy.
at nancy boy, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 89: A group of hyperactive boyos who were hogging the pool table.
at boyo, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 65: I wasn’t there to bat the breeze.
at bat the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 75: Helen was not just a brick, but a mate. I’d do my best.
at brick, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 224: Gilpin’s stony-broke and woofing bonkers.
at stone broke, adj.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 20: Mail’s on your desk. Usual bumph, nothing urgent.
at bumf, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 84: He got the bum’s rush from the union.
at bum’s rush, n.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 210: In the meantime I should butt out and stop making promises.
at butt out, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 270: ‘Cut the cackle, Alan,’ Quinlan elbowed him aside.
at cut the cackle (v.) under cackle, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 38: Charlie [...] carking it on the very day the body turns up.
at cark, v.
[Aus] S. Maloney Sucked In 69: [A] carrot-haired young man in a boxy suit.
at carrot-headed (adj.) under carrot, n.
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