1958 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.
1958 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.
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 46: 7 a.m., breakfast: dry porridge (burgoo, it is called).at burgoo, n.
1958 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.
1958 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
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 46: Midday meal: various meats [...] covered wagons (pasties), sausages, or a dubious roast.at covered-wagon, n.
1958 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.
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 42: ‘All hot! Get your doggie,’ a white-aproned saveloy vendor shouted.at dog, n.2
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 208: I owe him two hundred from the dogs last night.at dogs, the, n.
1958 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
1958 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
1958 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
1958 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.
1958 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
1958 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.
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 183: Not all bookies are miserable; some of them are happy-go-lucky, generous blokes.at miserable, adj.
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 176: Darby Munro stealing a weight for age race on a moke.at moke, n.1
1958 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.
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 186: All right, you tub-thumping old bastard [...] You’re worse than the Salvos.at Salvo, n.
1958 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.
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 86: Look who’s here, the square head from the library.at squarehead, n.1
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 173: They were Victorian horses [...] Their trainers used the old-fashioned Melbourne stings.at sting, n.
1958 F.J. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 44: Some of those who still had work looked down on the unemployed, the ‘sussos’.at susso, n.
1958 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.
1958 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.
1958 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.