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Any Old Dollars, Mister? choose

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[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 139: ‘Easy as falling off a log,’ I said, and snapped my fingers.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 127: I hope you kill a thousand yella bellies.
at yellow belly, n.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 107: I got annoyed, because it tickled like billy-o.
at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 92: Saw young Nuts getting down the hill on that boneshaker of his.
at bone-shaker (n.) under bone, n.1
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 116: I bet his Dad belts him to buggery.
at to buggery (adv.) under buggery, n.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 128: ‘Bull!’ I answered, and we laughed flat out.
at bull!, excl.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 72: He sat back [...] and let smoke trickle from his mouth and up through his nostrils. Chinese smoking, he said proudly.
at Chinese smoking (n.) under Chinese, adj.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 47: The Ching kid still had his head down.
at ching, n.1
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 122: If you little cows don’t ’op it [...] I’ll call a policeman, see!
at cow, n.1
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 86: Y’ got sim fine cow juice in this country.
at cow juice (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 127: They jest appeared – hot diggerty! Like that! And he snapped his fingers.
at hot diggety (dog)!, excl.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 75: ‘Crikey. That’s awful.’ ‘Dinkum,’ he said, and nodded.
at fair dinkum!, excl.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 127: C’mon, cutie, let’s drift.
at drift, v.1
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 153: ‘Hold your tongue, foghorn,’ Dad said to me.
at foghorn, n.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 95: He was funky all right. So was I.
at funky, adj.2
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 21: The wind blew a sailor’s white gob off his head.
at gob, n.2
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 41: ‘By kori,’ he said with a kind smile.
at by gorry! (excl.) under gorry!, excl.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 74: If he starts throwing his weight around punch him on the nose – that’ll fix his hash.
at settle the hash (v.) under hash, n.1
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 89: Hokey-pokey and ice cream would only cost about fivepence.
at hokey-pokey, n.3
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 119: Jingos! I got one helluva beltin’ for heaving that rock on our roof.
at jingo!, excl.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 33: Yairsuh, I’ze a silly ol’ Kee-wee kid.
at Kiwi, adj.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 80: Her bloomers were half-mast.
at (at) half-mast (adv.) under mast, n.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 151: Me steal? Never in your nellie!
at not on your nellie, phr.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 41: You callin’ us Maori fellas nigger, heh?
at nigger, n.1
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 125: He stopped at one [a cubicle] with ‘Engaged’ on it and knocked on the door. [...] ‘Can’t a plurry fella have one in bloody peace?’.
at one, n.1
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 108: This warden got awful snaky and said some terrible things about people having no respect.
at snaky, adj.1
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 59: It went s-sonk! and he spat out the bottle top and started sozzling away.
at sonk, v.2
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 59: It went s-sonk! and he spat out the bottle top and started sozzling away.
at sozzle, v.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 111: Let’s have a squiz at those nasty cuts.
at squiz, n.
[US] N.B. Harvey Any Old Dollars, Mister? 114: We all yakkered away about the yanks.
at yacker, v.2
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