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Billy Borker Yarns Again choose

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[Aus] F.J. Hardy Billy Borker Yarns Again 108: ‘Close: but Magger by a head,’ the course announcer Ken Howard says, ‘London to a brick on Magger.’.
at bet London to a brick (on) (v.) under bet, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Billy Borker Yarns Again 49: Being a smartie, he decides to run it dead and lay it to the Darwin mugs, see.
at dead, adv.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Billy Borker Yarns Again 136: The worst service in the world. Drack sorts for hostesses, poor service, drunken pilots.
at drack sort (n.) under drack, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Billy Borker Yarns Again 2: ‘Who’s Louis the Fly?’ ‘The ringkeeper at Tommo’s Two-up School; had buck teeth like the fly in the T.V. commercials. His mates used to say to him: ‘I hate Mortein. Louis hates Mortein.’.
at louie, n.1
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