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[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 201: I have only flirted to try and see if you cared, but you didn’t care a pin.
at not care a pin, v.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 118: I [...] don’t care a jot whether it is good writing or not.
at not care a jot, v.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 133: Being unable to swim, but for my companion it would have been all up for me.
at all up, adj.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 125: It is nice to have an old auntie, as a blind, is it not?
at blind, n.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 145: It was such a good joke that I considered it worth two of the blowings up I was sure of getting from grannie for my conduct.
at blow-up, n.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 258: And the long and short of it is that I hate dairying like blue murder.
at like blue murder (adv.) under blue murder, n.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 117: I don’t know what sort of a bobberie they would kick up.
at kick up a bobbery (v.) under bobbery, n.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 142: As the weather got hot, we went for bogeys in a part of the river two miles distant.
at bogey, n.2
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 110: Here he boggled completely, which had the effect of reviving my laughter.
at boggle, v.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 308: I’m afraid you might be boggling at some funny little point that could easily be wiped out.
at boggle, v.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 94: I’m not a booby that will fall in love with every gussie I see.
at booby, n.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 28: He gave one the impression of having all his ideas on the subjects he thought worthy of attention carefully culled and packed in his brain-pan.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 207: The recent ‘going bung’ of a building society.
at go bung (v.) under bung, adj.2
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 239: I have heard of pianos sounding like a tin dish, but this was not as pleasant as a tin dish by long chalks.
at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 159: The flower-garden on that woman’s hat corked your chances altogether. Never mind, don’t you funk.
at cork, v.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 167: Two stout old squatters with big laughs and bigger corporations.
at corporation, n.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 160: Now, Sybylla, none of your crammers.
at crammer, n.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 241: Wheat’s rose a shillun a bushel! By dad, I must double my crops this year.
at dad, n.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 150: The boss is so dashed partickler too.
at dashed, adv.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 16: It’s the dead-and-alivest hole I ever seen.
at dead alive (adj.) under dead, adj.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 163: He has a roaring derry on disobedience.
at have a derry on (v.) under derry, n.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 72: The combined forces of the burn and influenza made me a trifle dicky.
at dicky, adj.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 158: It was the drag, and not a sulky. Harold occupied the driver’s seat, and the other occupants were all ladies.
at drag, n.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 259: None of us have a penny to bless ourselves with, let alone dub up for taxes.
at dub up, v.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 163: Bad-tempered is a tame name for it. You should have seen the dust he raised the other day with old Benson.
at kick up (a) dust (v.) under dust, n.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 145: It was not long before I fetched up at Dogtrap homestead.
at fetch up, v.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 258: Fancy a cove sitting down every morning and evening pulling a cow’s tits fit to bust himself.
at fit to bust under fit to..., phr.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 15: Her feelings being much more defined, it was amusing to hear the flat out opinions she expressed to Mr Blackshaw.
at flat out, adj.1
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 16: I’m full of the place.
at full of, adj.
[Aus] ‘Miles Franklin’ My Brilliant Career 138: One jackeroo who gabbed never-endingly about his great relations at home.
at gab, v.
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