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[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 49: One day a bloke told me ya first name was ’Oward, but I tells him he’s up a tree.
at up a tree, phr.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 5: He stopped the abo in three last Saturdee. What a punch! It was a bloody beaut.
at abo, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 177: An abortion of a thing.
at abortion, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 138: We’re being mucked around by experts.
at muck about, v.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 222: I don’t — hold any — aces.
at hold aces (v.) under ace, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 168: I reckon if I got stomach ache all you alecks would know almost before I did.
at alec, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 140: The Jerries might be right on our hammer for all we know.
at on someone’s hammer (and tack) under hammer and tack, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 20: I’ll show those so-and-sos something.
at so-and-so, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 80: Don’t take any notice of that ape.
at ape, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 5: [I] sneaks in just in time to see Jerry knock Binghi as cold as a Polar bear’s backside. [Ibid.] 205: Hot as hell all day and cold as a polar bear’s backside all night.
at ...a polar bear’s behind under cold as..., adj.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 122: I don’t wanter be a grape on the business, but what’s Clive gettin’ at? Won’t somebody drum me?
at get at, v.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 136: The Sixth Division, the Kiwis and thousands of Tommies had gone to the rescue of gallant Greece.
at Tommy Atkins, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats xi: It was a bloody good life we led back in Aussie.
at Aussie, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 114: They reckon the babbling brook’s done some rissoles.
at babbler, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 79: I reckon where we’re goin’ a joker’s goin’ ter need a decent sorta backstop.
at backstop (n.) under back, adj.2
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 212: ‘You had a go-back?’ I asked. ‘You didn’t let him get away with it?’.
at go-back, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 104: Ya still goin’ ter be true to Margaret? Still goin’ to keep knockin’ back the sheilas?
at knock back, v.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 35: George grinned. ‘You’ve got it bad,’ he said.
at have (got) it bad (v.) under bad, adj.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 198: I bags first.
at bagsy, v.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats ix: The infantry will win the war in the end despite all their tanks and fancy planes; but it’s a bastard.
at it’s a bastard under bastard, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 168: ‘G’day, ya old bastard,’ said Jim, and I was amused again at the thought that the Tommies could never get used to our main term of endearment.
at old bastard (n.) under bastard, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 93: The girl was still staring. Perhaps she was, as Eddie would say, ‘on the battle’.
at on the battle under battle, v.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 124: I doan want any bible-bashing bastard who’s never seen me before mumblin’ any bull— over me.
at bible-basher (n.) under bible, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 5: He was a real big noise, eh?
at big noise (n.) under big, adj.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 5: [I] sneaks in just in time to see Jerry knock Binghi as cold as a Polar bear’s backside.
at binghi, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 170: No chance of finding any of that Eyetie cognac we used to get blind on?
at blind, adj.1
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 84: I seen ya snaffle that bayonet from the Q.M. store, doctor it up so it looked old and sell it to that old sheila as the one Jacka won his V.C. with in the last blue.
at blue, n.1
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 76: I knew fellows who went out looking for what they called a ‘blue’.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 36: It is inconceivable that a girl will allow you to merge her curves with your angles on a dance floor, but will clout you one in the mug and scream blue murder if you put your arm around her in a public place.
at blue murder, n.
[Aus] L. Glassop We Were the Rats 177: ‘Bluey brought a perv book back from Cairo with him.’ I did not bother to ask which Bluey. Every fellow in the A.I.F. with ginger hair was called Bluey.
at bluey, n.1
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