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Yarns of Billy Borker 43: That’s not football, mate, it’s aerial ping-pong.at aerial pingpong, n.
Yarns of Billy Borker 43: That’s not football, mate, it’s aerial ping-pong. Yarns of Billy Borker 80: Oi took one over the noine and woke up with a mother and a father of a hangover.at father (and mother) of..., n.
Yarns of Billy Borker 92: This bloke’s as queer as a three pound note, hasn’t got all his marbles.at ...a nine-bob note under queer as..., adj.
Yarns of Billy Borker 79: What kind of people are these Aussies after all?at Aussie, n.
Yarns of Billy Borker 71: As I said, bad trot—never won a race for years.at bad trot (n.) under bad, adj.
Yarns of Billy Borker 48: Sundowners never pay fares. It’s against the rules of the Bagmen’s Union.at bagman, n.
Yarns of Billy Borker (1980) 39: They go to a fence, see, a receiver of stolen goods named Octopus McGillicuddy. But the old Octopus wouldn’t have a bar of it.at not stand a bar of (v.) under bar, n.1
Yarns of Billy Borker 44: I thought Melbourne Mick had Sydney Sam over the barrel.at have someone over a barrel (v.) under barrel, n.1
Yarns of Billy Borker 96: He demanded that Hungry take him to the police station. Well, Hungry obliged—without switching the meter off, of course. At the Bastille the lollipop said the fare must pay the price showing on the meter.at bastille, n.
Yarns of Billy Borker (1980) 107: ‘I’m only a battler. Can’t afford to take short prices.’.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Yarns of Billy Borker 54: I won the lottery once and spent the lot in six months. That’s how it is with the Australian battler.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Yarns of Billy Borker 51: Up drove another one, in a Rolls-Royce, and a beaut sheila with him.at beaut, adj.
Yarns of Billy Borker 80–1: When you’ve got a hangover, the Aussie, may God bless his endeavours, would offer you a drink to liven you up. What he calls the hair of the dog that bit you.at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
Yarns of Billy Borker 102: Eventually, he got a licence to make a book on the flat at Flemington racecourse.at book, n.
Yarns of Billy Borker 147: Some idiot brass-hat told me this was a man’s outfit.at brass hat (n.) under brass, adj.1
Yarns of Billy Borker 104: [They] were very broke up about Murphy dying.at broke up, adj.
Yarns of Billy Borker 25: Beautiful cheese—not like the bunghole here in Woolloomooloo.at bunghole, n.2
Yarns of Billy Borker 109: I’ll invite you home to my place. That’s the caper, isn’t it?at caper, n.2
Yarns of Billy Borker 89: One day one of his mates at work, a bit of a hard case, said: ‘What are you worrying about? You’ve got plenty of money: why don’t you employ someone to do your worrying for you?’.at hard case, n.
Yarns of Billy Borker 115: He was a casual wharfie at the time I’m telling you about, during the Second World War it was, and they call casuals ‘seagulls’.at casual, n.1
Yarns of Billy Borker 93: He’s a cheeky mug. A joke’s a joke, but this is going too far.at cheeky, adj.
Yarns of Billy Borker 130: The waterfront D’s are standing at the gate chewing the rag about not being able to catch Honest Hambone.at chew the rag, v.
Yarns of Billy Borker 61: Up they choof to the travel agency and buy two one-way air tickets to Mexico.at choof, v.
Yarns of Billy Borker 26: Champagne and a chicken dinner chucked in.at chuck in, v.
Yarns of Billy Borker 13: You said before you’d tell me about an old age pensioner who—what did he do again? Cleaned up three policemen during the shearers’ strike.at clean up, v.
Yarns of Billy Borker 68: At least we haven’t watered that pumpkin and put a collar on it like you do with your beer.at collar, n.
Yarns of Billy Borker 134: When you’re telling the truth no one believes you — especially compo doctors. Compensation doctors obey the ethics of the profession.at compo, n.
Yarns of Billy Borker 29: Old Truthful copped it from those mosquitoes, I can tell you, on account he was a white man.at cop it, v.
Yarns of Billy Borker 61: Some mug is bound to squeal coppers sooner or later.at holler copper (v.) under copper, n.
Yarns of Billy Borker 61: Some mug is bound to squeal coppers sooner or later.at holler copper, v.
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