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Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 24 Oct. 1/1: I will not mind a tinker’s curse, which is a proverbial cheap oath.at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 24 Oct. 1/1: I will not mind a tinker’s curse, which is a proverbial cheap oath. Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 17 Oct. 1/3: Wallace’s handwriting was of the post-and-rail order.at post-and-rail, n.2
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 17 Oct. 1/4: Hurrah! Well done John; you’re game as a pis-ant.at ...a piss ant under game as..., adj.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 31 Oct. 1/2: Dissembling their real intentions they mounted a chawbacon boy in the paddock.at chaw-bacon, n.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 19 Dec. 2/3: Bill the Badlot, Mr Arthur Haytor; Sid the Sadlot, Mr Frank Haytor.at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 Oct. 4/1: The bamboozled and bulldozed citizens of New South Wales.at bamboozle, v.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 28 Nov. 1/3: [He] banged boniface two such brutal blows as laid the landlord low.at bang, v.1
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 31 Oct. 1/1: Some time ago [...] this club biffed a member named Barrington out on his pink ear and curly hair.at biff, v.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 24 Oct. 1/1: It looks as if the A.J.C. will yet be yarded into the pen of straight-goers or blown out altogether.at blow out, v.1
Sydney Sportsman 5 Dec. 8/6: On Saturday night last at the Gate a hard-faced individual was introduced [...] under the cognomen of Tommy Allen (better known to North Shoreites as the ‘Bon Todger.’) This gentleman challenged all and sundry [...] to do battle for a stake of from £25 to £100.at bontodger, n.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 14 Nov. 1/1: One actually shouted a booze on the strength of his win.at booze, n.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 5 Dec. 1/4: Abbott is hot foot on Fishy’s ‘brass nail’ for the odds [...] he laid him.at brass nail, n.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 14 Nov. 1/1: Of course punters put their brass on Saltoun.at brass, n.1
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 12 Dec. 1/2: You can guess, when we breasted the bookies / We put on plenty of style.at breast (up to), v.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 7 Nov. 1/3: Hearing of his success in Australia the poor law guardians sent the son out, and so ‘bust up’ the show.at bust up, v.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 7 Nov. 1/1: The big Carnival of racing commenced by the V.A.T.C. last month [...] A Cup carnival in the cabbage cultivating country can cripple the racing.at cabbage garden (n.) under cabbage, n.2
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 Oct. 1/3: As the circus man said to his clown, let us ‘cut the cackle and get to the horses’.at cut the cackle (v.) under cackle, n.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 31 Oct. 1/1: There was nothing ‘pure and simple’ about the caper.at caper, n.2
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 24 Oct. 1/8: Oh the suffering and sorrow / When you ‘whip the cat’ tomorrow.at whip the cat, v.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 10 Oct. 1/1: Nuf ced for the present.at nuff ced, phr.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 17 Oct. 1/3: Remember, the tip-slinger who has a ‘dead cert’ is quite truthful — he has. It’s always a dead cert for the fly-flat to fall in.at dead cert (n.) under cert, n.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 24 Oct. 1/1: This is a kosher paper; everything the other papers smother The Sportsman chats.at chat, v.1
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 5 Dec. 1/4: This commission, tale-teller, tear-down, or whatever he may be, chats Fishy the brass is on Kitty Wager at a good price.at chat, v.1
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 19 Dec. 1/2: The owner [...] went to the boy [i.e. a jockey] and gave him the chat to take hold.at chat, n.3
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 Oct. 1/1: It’s odds on they will want to bite your lug for a caser.at chew someone’s ear, v.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 21 Nov. 2/2: In a bicycle song the fair singer doesn’t kick up [her legs] to any extent, but still is bright and chippy.at chippy, adj.2
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 5 Dec. 1/1: Mr Newmann [...] doubtless felt it an honour to have his good horseschiselled out of a race.at chisel, v.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 17 Oct. 1/3: When Dawson tried to laugh over it [i.e. a gambling loss] it nearly cracked his chivvy.at chivvy, n.2
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 21 Nov. 1/8: After the traditional palavering, [the three-card trick man] found a dupe and cleared him out.at clear out, v.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 24 Oct. 1/2: Mick Dawson cocked a deaf ’un to all requests for the office.at cock a deaf ’un (v.) under cock, v.4
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