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[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 139: If there’s any blue this time, I’m heading north like a go up a tree. They can stick this joint.
at like a..., phr.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 179: She put on an act about the Brasso and the lino cream that were missing [...] Ma said, ‘Don’t make a song about it.’.
at make a song and dance (about) (v.) under song and dance, n.1
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 141: ‘He’s a bit rough, isn’t he?’ Frank said quietly. ‘Too muggin’ right he’s rough’ [...] ‘Rough as guts.’.
at ...guts under rough as..., adj.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 144: That sour-bellied mug!
at sour-balled, adj.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 139: If there’s any blue this time, I’m heading north like a go up a tree. They can stick this joint.
at blue, n.4
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 232: Then there was a bob-in; then they had one with Chrissie who’d been pulling beer at the Exchange since they were kids.
at bob in (n.) under bob, n.3
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 179: He can get into more trouble than a left-handed bogger working with a right-handed mate.
at bogger, n.1
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 253: Isn’t there a fancy boongess somewhere around this joint? Classy bit of colour?
at boong, n.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 85: The counter-jumper [...] where Pa went to see the new Sam Weller cooking range was most obliging.
at counter-jumper, n.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 233: Cabbage, a sodden grey dob.
at dob, n.1
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 179: Ma handled the front bar and the floosy barmaid flirted with the bank clerk in the saloon.
at floozy, adj.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 232: They had one with Chrissie who’d been pulling beer at the Exchange since they were kids selling footie programmes.
at footie, n.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 139: If there’s any blue this time, I’m heading north like a go up a tree. They can stick this joint.
at go, n.2
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 143: Steve had been grogging with the steward.
at grog, v.1
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 249: ‘Hurroo,’ he said, and [...] hurried off down the road.
at hooroo!, excl.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 189: The house was vapid when he was at work, the children at school, Philip at morning kindie.
at kinder, n.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 152: Eh, you [...] where that lolly-water for your kids tomorrow?
at lollywater, n.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 139: There’s that pot-bellied muck-up that calls himself a winchman. Do I hate his guts! Muckin’ shame we can’t do the whole muckin’ issue on our pat.
at on one’s pat (malone) (adj.) under pat malone, n.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 139: There’s that pot-bellied muck-up that calls himself a winchman. Do I hate his guts! Muckin’ shame we can’t do the whole muckin’ issue on our pat.
at muck-up, n.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 141: ‘He’s a bit rough, isn’t he?’ Frank said quietly. ‘Too muggin’ right he’s rough.’.
at mugging, adj.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 183: Whadda y’ want? Beer? The beer’s off, see?
at off, adv.1
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 208: ‘See she’s picked up with that shearer,’ the old woman remarked, her usual spleen corroding the words. ‘Pretty couple they make.’.
at pick up with (v.) under pick up, v.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 153: The men were drifting off to the camps, [...] or possum-footing across to the women’s dormitory.
at possum-foot (v.) under possum, v.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 178: Once every two or three years old Whiner he goes on the pots [...] And take my word for it, the whole of Golden Ridge don’t hold old Whiner when he’s properly on the pots.
at go on the pots (v.) under pot, n.1
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 178: You swab up the counter and straighten the shelf and don’t pratt your frame into their conversation.
at prat in (v.) under prat, v.2
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 232: Then there was a bob-in; then they had one with Chrissie who’d been pulling beer at the Exchange since they were kids.
at pull, v.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 180: It wouldn’t hurt if Whiner learned how to sling a pot like Harold.
at sling, v.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 83: Smarty Dick, Smarty Dick!
at smarty, adj.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 140: Sour-belly’s been hittin’ the grog.
at sourball, n.
[UK] L. Hadow Full Cycle 237: If a man said he didn’t want your ugly mug around his camp, you’d get the spike.
at get the spike (v.) under spike, n.1
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