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The Big Game and Other Stories choose

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[NZ] ‘A.P. Gaskell’ ‘The Pig & Whistle’ Big Game and Stories (1947) 67: It’s such a corker name for a small country pub.
at corking, adj.
[NZ] ‘A.P. Gaskell’ ‘The Big Game’ in Big Game and Stories 11: ‘No, fair go,’ said Bob seriously.
at fair go, phr.
[NZ] ‘A.P. Gaskell’ ‘Tidings of Joy’ in Big Game and Stories 39: It took all the fizz out of me.
at fizz, n.1
[NZ] ‘A.P. Gaskell’ ‘School Picnic’ in Big Game and Stories 89: We gotta hundred fizz [...] And straws.
at fizz, n.1
[NZ] ‘A.P. Gaskell’ ‘Tidings of Joy’ in Big Game and Stories 34: He was very fit and full of zip.
at zip, n.2
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