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[Aus] B. Boake ‘Jimmy Wood’ in B. Moore Speaking Our Lang. (2009) 115: I never pay for others, nor do I / Take drink from them, and never never would, sir / [...] / A martyr to my faith, that’s Jimmy Wood, sir.
at Jimmy Woodser, n.
[Aus] B. Moore Speaking Our Lang. 12: A flock of these gregarious birds perched in trees and sounding off raucous calls generated the phrase as mad as a gumtree full of galahs.
at ...a gum-tree full of galahs under mad as..., adj.
[Aus] B. Moore Speaking Our Lang. 171: In Melbourne the term is Toorak tractor, in Sydney Mosman tractor, and in Perth a Dalkeith tractor or Dalkeith rickshaw.
at Chelsea tractor, n.
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