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(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 160: Banzai! They screamed [...] running hard at him with their bayonets.at banzai!, excl.
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 160: Banzai! They screamed [...] running hard at him with their bayonets. (con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 87: Don’t come the caper with me, Corporal!at caper, n.2
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 195: ‘Let me know when you get back,’ said the padre. ‘We’ll chew the ear a bit.’.at chew someone’s ear, v.
Last Blue Sea v: Militiamen (Chocolate Soldiers, Chockos) were mostly wartime conscripts. [...] The Chock War, the bitter discord between the A.I.F. and the Militia, began in Liverpool Camp near Sydney in October 1939.at choco, n.1
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 55: ‘What’s crawling on you?’ [...] ‘It’s me that’s stuck with him.’.at what’s crawling on you? under crawl, v.2
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 90: It’s a bit dicky sending a section down there, but if you sent a platoon this early, you’d be in trouble here if the Nips attacked the company.at dicky, adj.1
Last Blue Sea 128: Your feet wear down to the ankles, and your get falls in like a bag of string, but your mind stays quite clear to the end.at feel like a ball of string (v.) under feel, v.
Last Blue Sea 70: I thought you blokes weren’t coming. I thought you’d gone through. Like the Greyhounds.at go through, v.
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 38: They’ll jack-up like they did on the Townsville wharf.at jack up, v.1
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 171: Fisher had told Lincoln to tie his jaw up.at tie up one’s jaw (v.) under jaw, n.
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 121: Jings! I can’t help it.at jings!, excl.
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 37: He’s a possum.at possum, n.
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 94: Thanks for that squirt you gave him, Mitch.at squirt, n.
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 163: I got meself a walking ticket.at walking ticket (n.) under ticket, n.1
(con. 1940s) Last Blue Sea 184: A court-martial can’t kill me. Neither can a lot of yakking about manhood.at yacking, n.
Last Blue Sea 114: Sending troops on a route march and going back to bash the spine.at bash the spine (v.) under bash, v.
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