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[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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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