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The Angry Eye choose

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[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 205: When the pubs are emptied and the barrackers have dispersed from the Hill, the Australian language reverts to a grey verbal solemnity.
at barrack, v.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 107: Derek would bring the protesters tea and bikkies.
at bikkie, n.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 41: The other form of drinking [...] was characterised by the drinking ‘session’ or the shearer’s ‘blueing of his cheque’.
at blew, v.2
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 186: I suspect our elegant French trading friends are having two bob each-way in the Australian sex-aid market.
at two-bob each way, phr.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 129: It is the land of eternal cock-ups.
at cock-up, n.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 121: I’m going to talk it over with [...] our sheep-cocky and bushman.
at sheep-cocky (n.) under cocky, n.2
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 75: The Australian attitude of write-down-to-our-drongo readers leads to the endless flood of bad sporting books.
at drongo, adj.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 21: Even down where the Freds are browsing in their nocturnal pastures, the herd heroes are largely wasted. The John Laws and Brian Hendersons of Fredsville could well be their own men, real individuals down in the jungle of the sub-culture.
at fred, n.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 110: That’s hard bloody cheese for the English-reading scholars.
at hard cheese (n.) under hard, adj.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 230: The students shamble out of the open classroom at school to the open situation of the university, intellectually pinheaded.
at pinhead, adj.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 37: Poms winge, Australians get stuck into a problem.
at pommie, n.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 103: Dear Your ‘Royal Highness’: one of your humblest liege subjects [...] a roughneck.
at roughneck, n.
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 146: The traumatic change [...] provides revealing diagnostic material for any head-shrinker worth an ounce of analytical civet.
at head-shrinker (n.) under shrink, n.1
[Aus] M. Harris Angry Eye 116: The late lamented Joe Stalin’s ziff.
at ziff, n.2
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