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[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 30: I must say the cooks turned out an A1 meal.
at A-1, adj.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 100: ‘Rush the adjectived, asterisked, double-starred sons of lady dogs, boys!’.
at adjective, adj.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 72: Of course, there were little isolated pow-wows now and then, but they always ended in such an all-fired jamboree that the tenderfeet effendis [...] thought the bottom had fallen out of hell.
at all-fired, adj.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 100: ‘Rush the adjectived, asterisked, double-starred sons of lady dogs, boys!’.
at asterisk, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 17: Tommy Atkins can fight; we admit it, and we take off our hats to him.
at Tommy Atkins, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 196: [T]he enemy is pumping shrapnel into the bay [...] in the hope of bagging those engaged in the work of rescue.
at bag, v.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 89: We presented our prospective helpmeets with sufficient Turkish Delight to ensure them dyspepsia [and] backsheeshed their parents till they smiled sixteen to the dozen.
at baksheesh, v.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 22: The natives [...] are intensely religious, always looking for backsheesh, and have no morals.
at baksheesh, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 8: [of a route march] [T]wice a week or so we put in a fifteen to twenty mile stunt, cutting out the pace at a good round bat.
at bat, n.3
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 22: [T]he beggars kept dropping on us below. We didn’t like it; there are nicer things than fishing for lively cockroaches inside your shirt.
at beggar, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 166: [Y]ou find yourself at the foot of the hill with a sniper biffing away at you and enjoying the joke.
at biff, v.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 54: [T]he women [...] seem quite content to graft away like billy-oh, while their owners lie in the shade and smoke.
at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 58: [Y]ou’ll spend every piastre you can lay hands on before they let you go, and you'll blue the cash without caring.
at blew, v.2
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 43: Our own O.C. was naturally anxious to make an A1 show in his particular line, so we prepared a boncer defensive position.
at boncer, adj.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 35: [of a collapsing tent] Once I saw a pole go clean through the top of a tent, the canvas, of course, sliding down like a parachute and ‘bonneting’ the inmates.
at bonnet, v.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 22: Our old hooker was just alive with cockroaches, too, and regular boomers they were; some as big as locusts.
at boomer, n.1
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 22: When we started in to boss them up they didn’t seem to know the meaning of the word ‘hustle,’ [...] truly, the army boot hath its uses.
at boss, v.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 7: Our daily work began with the usual before-breakfast breather a brisk march over the hills, a spell of physical exercise, a pipe-opening ‘double,’ and then a free-and-easy tramp back to camp.
at breather, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 5: Most of us were ‘bush carpenters,’ so the job was right into our hands.
at bush carpenter (n.) under bush, adj.1
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 5: [T]he Canadians [...] nobly seconded our efforts [...] Those Kanucks were a hefty lot.
at Canuck, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 77: [W]hisky that takes the lining of your throat down with it [...] a soothing liquid that licks ‘forty-rod,’ ‘chained lightning,’ or ‘Cape smoke’ to the back of creation.
at cape smoke, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 52: The lower-class natives [...] cheated you right and left if you allowed them. It was only a new chum who gave them anything like the price they asked for their goods.
at new chum, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 38: ‘Cockie,’ by the way, is short for ‘cockatoo,’ meaning, in the language of Australasia, a small farmer.
at cocky, n.2
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 37: So we got into the collar straight away [...] and put in overtime imbibing engineering knowledge.
at collar, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 39: [E]ven the niggers, [i.e. Egyptians] keen as they were to sell their oranges, wouldn’t come within coo-ee of our mob.
at within (a) cooee of under cooee, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 8: I believe there was only one man in the platoon under five feet ten. They were not ‘cornstalks’ either; they carried weight on top of their legs.
at cornstalk, n.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 44: [P]rotesting the while in lurid language against what they styled ‘a crook trick’.
at crook, adj.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 179: One up for the Turks ! They are as 'cute as a cageful of monkeys.
at cute as a... (adj.) under cute, adj.
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 159: Officers (Navy) very fine fellows [...] No side or laddy-da .
at la-di-da(h), n.1
[NZ] ‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 47: The newspaper sellers were real dabs at learning English.
at dab, n.1
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