Green’s Dictionary of Slang
H.W. Haygarth Recollections of Bush Life in Aus. 6: As he gradually leaves behind him the ‘big smoke’ (as the aborigines picturesquely call the town), the accommodations become more and more scanty .at Big Smoke, n.
H.W. Haygarth Recollections of Bush Life in Aus. 101: ‘It’s lucky we got them,’ said Amos; ‘there were ‘no flies’* about that black bull.’ (*This expression is very common in Australia, and is apparently borrowed from the American expression ‘no snakes’) .at no flies on..., phr.
H.W. Haygarth Recollections of Bush Life in Aus. 6: The Traveller’s entertainment is confined to the ‘old thing’, as it is contemptuously called, that is to say, beef and ‘damper’.at old thing, n.
H.W. Haygarth Recollections of Bush Life in Aus. 6: As he gradually leaves behind him the ‘big smoke’ (as the aborigines picturesquely call the town), the accommodations become more and more scanty .at Smoke, the, n.
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