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[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] We had the usual rent-a-lefty crowd outside Parliament.
at rent-a-, pfx
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] No-one really gave a shit about Hoagland.
at not give a shit, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Have a little muck about, get the feel olf him [i.e. a racehorse].
at muck about, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] I buggered about, bought a drink, looked at the magazines, studied the engine additives .
at bugger about, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] He was a runt, five foot fuckall.
at fuck all, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] I haven’t even offered you a drinky. I generally have a G and T around this time.
at g. and t., n.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] I got the message from this arsehole in Sydney. Via this spineless arsehole in Melbourne.
at arsehole, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] And it sure as fuck ain’t gonna work to say these Charis Corp girls put their spare housekeeping money into real estate.
at sure as fuck under sure as..., phr.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Cold as a mother-in-law’s kiss, my late husband used to say.
at ...a step-mother’s breath under cold as..., adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] What do you say, Jack? It’s not a big ask.
at big ask (n.) under ask, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Come in or I’ll shoot your balls oiff.
at balls, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Came out here with two pounds and holes in his socks. Got a job as a brickie, didn’t know a brick from a banjo.
at banjo, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] And when the estate was sold, there was a bit of a barney over that, wasn’t there?
at barney, n.2
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] The beanie, for Christ’s sakes. It’s Collingwood beanie.
at beanie, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] ‘I got Mrs Brierley.’ ‘You beauty. What does she say?’.
at beauty, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Pitman looked like he’d been bitten in a blow job.
at blow job, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] There was a lot of paranoia about the Branch. If you believed all the people who said the Branch were watching them [etc].
at Branch, the, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Came out here with two pounds and holes in his socks. Got a job as a brickie, didn’t know a brick from a banjo.
at brickie, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] I’ve been dealing with the fucking media for forty years. Ms Hillier thought she’d have a better chance of getting me to tip a bucket if she sent you.
at tip a bucket (v.) under bucket, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Too busy fighting their factional wars to give a bugger about the voters.
at not give a bugger (v.) under bugger, n.3
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Eddie’s a disloyal little bugger with lots of bad habits, but he wouldn’t actually harm anyone.
at bugger, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] The union’s telling him to slow down [...] So bugger the union.
at bugger, v.1
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Danny’s dead. Bugger off.
at bugger off, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] The stable got such a fright when they saw the odds go to buggery.
at to buggery (adv.) under buggery, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] ‘I might have kept him out of jail.’ [...] ‘Bullshit, mate’.
at bullshit!, excl.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Not even Harker was stupid enough to give [the job] to him. Not then, anyway. Later on, they were like bumboys.
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Nice bus this [...] but it hasn’t got the legs for this kind of thing [i.e. a high-speed pursuit].
at bus, n.2
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] You can’t live at home and eat MacDonald’s for what I can do it. Dirt, Jack, dirt.
at cheap as dirt (adj.) under cheap, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Eric was just chipping in the beginning. ‘Everything’s under control,’ was his favourite expression.
at chip, v.2
[Aus] P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] The girls with one pretty summer before the baies and the cigs and the mid-moprning start on the wine cask.
at cig, n.
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