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The Rats in New Guinea choose

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[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 113: We’re being mucked about by experts.
at muck about, v.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 166: I am not here to be laughed at, chaffed at and otherwise buggered about by the peasantry.
at bugger about, v.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 21: The closest he ever got to acting was putting on an act about how wonderful he is.
at put on an act (v.) under act, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 178: Do ya reckon Eunice had the best brace an’ bits, the most pervy tit for tats?
at brace and bits, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 19: He’s been around. He knows.
at have been around, v.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 58: It’s not like the desert up there, corp [...] It’s the — hole of the world.
at arsehole of the universe (n.) under arsehole, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 29: You great big bag of wind and lard, you drunken sot.
at bag of wind (n.) under bag, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 15: A beautiful hunk of brainless baloney.
at baloney, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 118: He thinks I’m much better than I am. A typical one-eyed barracker. [Ibid.] 118: I know a man who won’t talk to his daughter if the team she barracks for, Melbourne, beats his team, Footscray.
at barrack, v.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 32: He comes out with some bloody beauts [i.e. lies] don’t he?
at beaut, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 15: Only a muscular monstrosity [...] Only a beefy booter of a ball.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 139: ‘Keep your bib out of this, Groucho,’ I snarled.
at stick one’s bib (in) (v.) under bib, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 207: This guy’s talking sense. This guy’s in the big league.
at big league, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 18: Handsome Harry, the idol of the bird-brained teenagers.
at birdbrain (n.) under bird, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 149: Blow me if the Nips didden crack like they done near Eora Creek.
at blow me!, excl.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 148: A good bludge and good food [...] soon fixed me up.
at bludge, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 51: Perhaps they called him Smiler because he did not smile, just as they called fellows with red hair ‘Blue’.
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 180: I’m about to shoot through like a Bondi tram when some Japs come along.
at shoot through like a Bondi tram (v.) under Bondi, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 49: I had a heard a New Guinea native — ‘boongs’ or ‘Fuzzy Wuzzies’ we called them — in Moresby say ‘Japon man’.
at boong, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 128: Stand fast, Aussies, and bore it up ’em.
at bore it up (v.) under bore, v.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 27: Don’t worry, Mick. We’ll bore the work up them.
at bore it up (v.) under bore, v.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 17: After all, old boy, there is a code.
at old boy, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 210: He’ll probably have another crack at the Nips when they bung it on at first light.
at bung (it) on (v.) under bung, v.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 166: I am not here to be laughed at, chaffed at and otherwise buggered about by the peasantry.
at chaff, v.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 174: I wish to Christ I was going with you.
at to Christ under Christ, n.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 123: He half-inched it from one of our blokes [...] The cliftie1 mongrel [Footnote 1: Thieving].
at cliftie, v.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 150: Jock Milne [...] copped it back near Strip Point.
at cop it, v.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 55: Old Tom copped the lot.
at cop, v.
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 50: We pinned the Eyeties’ ears back an’ the Jerries’ [...] We’ll soon give them blasted Nips somethin’ for their corner, too.
at corner, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 18: Don’t be deluded by the big build-up. He wouldn’t get a — in a brothel.
at couldn’t get a fuck in a brothel under couldn’t..., phr.
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