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The Four-Legged Lottery choose

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[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-legged Lottery 188: He had more arse than a married cow playing snooker. I can tell yer. [Ibid.] That’s ‘Flukor’ Smithers [...] he had more arse than a married cow .
at more arse than a married cow under arse, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 60: Jim said [...] expressing less confidence than he felt: ‘We’d better not get too built up. We’re not the only pebble on the beach.’.
at build, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 46: 7 a.m., breakfast: dry porridge (burgoo, it is called).
at burgoo, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 187: Jim was accompanied by a woman, an attractive ‘hard case’ whom Julia instantly disliked.
at hard case, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 53: Your scones are good, Cissie, even with cocky’s joy on them.
at cocky’s delight (n.) under cocky, n.2
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 46: Midday meal: various meats [...] covered wagons (pasties), sausages, or a dubious roast.
at covered-wagon, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 181: The second thing is that stewards must be forced to act against the practice of racing horses dead.
at dead, adv.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 180: ‘And never back a dead ’un!’.
at dead one, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 42: ‘All hot! Get your doggie,’ a white-aproned saveloy vendor shouted.
at dog, n.2
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 208: I owe him two hundred from the dogs last night.
at dogs, the, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 173: The majority of winners are doped. So prevalent is doping, that the most honest trainer in Australia dare not risk a horse in an important race without ‘assistance’.
at dope, v.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 53: The kids can go to footy every Saturday.
at footie, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 87: Must get back to the game. Some of these bastards have more front than Myers; might get their hand caught in the tin.
at more front than Myers under front, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 174: Its price gradually increases. It gets the ‘Joe Blows’ as the punters put it.
at Joe Blow (n.) under joe, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 117: The prisoners can be divided roughly into three categories. First offenders and ‘knock-about men’ (semi-criminals who come here at infrequent intervals); hardened criminals; and, thirdly, ‘poofters’ (homosexuals).
at knockabout man, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 14: I’m just trying to pick a long-pop. Just invest a bob or two. [Ibid.] 114: He studied the form guide, looking for a long shot with a chance; no use to back anything else but a twenty to one pop now.
at long shot, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 134: Jim Roberts announced his amazing win of approaching two hundred pounds [...] and Tom Roberts said: ‘Well, I’ll be damned. We’ve got an Eric Connolly in the house!’.
at luck of Eric Connolly (n.) under luck, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 183: Not all bookies are miserable; some of them are happy-go-lucky, generous blokes.
at miserable, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 176: Darby Munro stealing a weight for age race on a moke.
at moke, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 193: You can trust me and Jack. We’re oyster.
at oyster, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 176: He [...] now works for the bookies to get the mugs in. The pie-eaters.
at pie-eater (n.) under pie, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 14: I might just have a shilling on a roughie.
at roughie, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 186: All right, you tub-thumping old bastard [...] You’re worse than the Salvos.
at Salvo, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 93: ‘That sonky thing,’ she replied with all the scornful pride of a beautiful young woman. ‘When I’m courted it will be by a real man.’.
at sonky, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 86: Look who’s here, the square head from the library.
at squarehead, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 173: They were Victorian horses [...] Their trainers used the old-fashioned Melbourne stings.
at sting, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 44: Some of those who still had work looked down on the unemployed, the ‘sussos’.
at susso, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 158: I’m like the old swaggie; no man’s master and no man’s slave.
at swaggie, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 203: I liked the trots [...] the floodlit tracks and the horses so close all the way round.
at trots, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 177: Ronnie Hutchison, a specialist in long distance races, getting the wrap up from his mates, Des Hoysted and Frank O’Brien – ‘ridden in copy-book style by Hutchie.’.
at wrap-up, n.
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