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Sydney Sportsman choose

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[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 Oct. 4/1: The bamboozled and bulldozed citizens of New South Wales.
at bamboozle, v.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 14 Nov. 1/1: One actually shouted a booze on the strength of his win.
at booze, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 14 Nov. 1/1: Of course punters put their brass on Saltoun.
at brass, n.1
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 31 Oct. 1/1: There was nothing ‘pure and simple’ about the caper.
at caper, n.2
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 10 Oct. 1/1: Nuf ced for the present.
at nuff ced, phr.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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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