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Lucky Palmer 15: Half a note Vallina all up Anorient.at half a note, n.
Lucky Palmer 15: Half a note Vallina all up Anorient. Lucky Palmer 37: Do you think a man’s a mug? I get smart alecks like you trying to put one over on me every minute of the day.at smart aleck, n.
Lucky Palmer 37: It’s about time you mugs woke up to yourself. You’re not in the race to get in without a ticket. Why don’t you give the game away?at give it away, v.
Lucky Palmer 34: This ‘Lolly’s’ a beauty [...] He comes up here one night and blows down my ear about all the mazooma he’s won.at beauty, n.1
Lucky Palmer 21: If me old man catches me with this much dough I’ll get a belting.at belting (n.) under belt, v.
Lucky Palmer 29: Never seem to get the right trot, max. Whenever I go for the big dish the horse I back gets beaten a skull.at big dish (n.) under big, adj.
Lucky Palmer 228: ‘There’s a spare threepence.’ [...] ‘I’m too crook to worry about a trey. You can have that.’.at trey-bit, n.
Lucky Palmer 17: All right, all right [...] You’ll all be paid. Don’t do the block.at do one’s block (v.) under block, n.1
Lucky Palmer 206: I know what you young bloods are like. I may be an old woman, but I’ve been around.at young blood (n.) under blood, n.2
Lucky Palmer 155: I remember you when you was peddling three-place cards at Bindarra and bludging round the pubs.at bludge, v.
Lucky Palmer 248: No money changed hands. He was betting on credit — ‘Lucky’ called it betting ‘on the blue,’ ‘on the Mary Lou’ or ‘on the nod’.at bet on the blue (v.) under blue, n.1
Lucky Palmer 168: The man running a two-up game takes a percentage of the winnings of the spinner when there is a run of heads, but when tails are falling he depends on contributions from the tail backers. In response to the fat man’s appeal for a ‘boxer,’ a few florins and shillings were tossed into the ring.at boxer, n.2
Lucky Palmer 209: Cheer up, Mr. Grey. What you need is a good bracer.at bracer, n.1
Lucky Palmer 70: ‘You’re not going to put it on?’ [...] ‘Are you fair dinkum?’ he asked, ‘I’m going to brass him for it.’.at brass, v.
Lucky Palmer 98: You go out to the dogs and start punting on Canterbury with a brick in your dook. Yes, you’ve got a whole ten pound note.at brick, n.
Lucky Palmer 37: Where’s your brief, sport? You can’t get in without a ticket.at brief, n.1
Lucky Palmer 28: Sheilas don’t interest me. They’re not worth a bumper.at not worth a bumper (adj.) under bumper, n.4
Lucky Palmer 37: Do you think a man’s a mug? I get smart alecks like you trying to put one over on me every minute of the day. What do you think this is? Bush Week?at bush week (n.) under bush, n.1
Lucky Palmer 41: ‘Charlie?’ asked Eric. ‘What do you mean by “Charlie”?’ ‘Your “Charlie”,’ repeated Max. ‘Your canary.’ ‘“Canary”?’ ‘Ay, don’t you speak English? Your sheila.’.at canary, n.1
Lucky Palmer 42: I’ll bet you a caser that the one on the right flies way before the one on the left.at caser, n.1
Lucky Palmer 41: Who was that Charlie I seen you with last night?at charlie, n.8
Lucky Palmer 156: Cheaters [...] make mountains out of molehills. They make young girls look like Lana Turner with four skeins of wool around her.at cheaters, n.2
Lucky Palmer 2: ‘Darky’ Snedon, the ‘cockatoo’, little rat-faced unshaven man with stooped shoulders, whose job it was to watch for the police.at cockatoo, n.2
Lucky Palmer 99: If it isn’t my old mate, ‘Darky’ Sneddon, who used to keep nit for Clarrie Simpson at Bindarra [...] Still cockatooing, eh, ‘Darky’?at cockatoo, v.
Lucky Palmer 32: Now I’ll be able to have a crack at that little redhead who’s been giving me the come-on signal as she dances by.at come-on, adj.
Lucky Palmer 15: Looks like you’re going to cop the lot.at cop the lot (v.) under cop, v.
Lucky Palmer 76: ‘We look like doing three months on the corn.’ ‘The corn?’ ‘Yeah. The prison porridge.’.at on the corn under corn, n.1
Lucky Palmer 87: That work [...] I’m crooked on that.at crooked on, adj.
Lucky Palmer 60: She’s no crow, he thought, A real good-looking filly, this one.at crow, n.2
Lucky Palmer 156: She’s got you taped, too, kid. She’s got the wood on all of us.at have the deadwood on (v.) under deadwood, n.
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