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[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 234: If he saves his bacon he won’t care whether he’s cooped up or not.
at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 115: ‘Oh don’t loll there and drivel, Bee . . . for Heavens’s sake come for a bogie.’ They collected towels and bathing suits and went down to the creek.
at bogey, n.2
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 228: The police had a brush with the cattle-duffers.
at brush, n.2
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 238: Arline [...] proffered a bull’s-eye.
at bull’s eye, n.
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 199: They felt secure enough, for they had had word by their special bush telegraph.
at bush telegraph, n.
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 100: They [drunken men] are pretty disgusting [...] but they never realize it when in liquor . . . and whipping the cat afterwards doesn’t seem to cure them.
at whip the cat, v.
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 228: The police had a brush with the cattle-duffers.
at cattle-duffer, n.
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 160: ‘He doesn’t drink, does he?’ ‘No: not more than any of us! Has a wad occasionally . . . Sometimes a double-header . . . but I’ve never seem him helpless’.
at double-header (n.) under double, adj.
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 243: What a forgetful old duffer I am.
at duffer, n.2
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 114: I expect you’re eating all the conversation lollies [...] Greedy-guts — greedy guts.
at greedy-gut, n.
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 243: It wouldn’t do to become a ‘Hatter’ always mooning away alone.
at hatter, n.1
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 187: Old Jacky, the head of the tribe.
at jacky jacky, n.
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 93: Didn’t know old Gordon, silly old josser, was a bird fancier.
at josser, n.3
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 187: Old Jacky, the head of the tribe [...] would arrange a corroboree next week for the ‘White Marys’ to see.
at Mary, n.
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 124: The mob of ‘mickies’ [...] somewhere in the fastnesses of the range.
at mickey, n.1
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 17: Just one nobbler.
at nobbler, n.3
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 92: Their owners were inside the bar ‘stopping one’.
at stop one (v.) under one, n.1
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 242: Every now and then some political wirepuller [...] will have a go at setting him free.
at wire-puller, n.1
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 62: Gerry’s rat-tailed piebald.
at rat-tail (adj.) under rat, n.1
[UK] M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 160: ‘He doesn’t drink, does he?’ ‘No: not more than any of us! Has a wad occasionally . . . Sometimes a double-header . . . but I’ve never seem him helpless.’.
at wad, n.1
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