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Westralian Worker (Perth) 26 Feb. 4/3: ‘Strike me up a wattle, Soapy, you ought to have seen us marching to the railway station with our swags.’ .at strike me up a wattle! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Westralian Worker (Perth) 26 Feb. 4/3: ‘Strike me up a wattle, Soapy, you ought to have seen us marching to the railway station with our swags.’ . Westralian Worker (Perth) 10 Nov. 8/2: ‘Wot’s them peas kiddin’ ‘emselves they’re doin’ over there?’ he asked, pointing to a crowd on the Recreation Ground.at pea, n.1
Westralian Worker (Perth) 5 June 11/6: . Chris Ewing was a con tinual menace to the oposition, his corn beef rushes being very disconcerting; but where, oh where, did he buy his shooting boots?at corned beef rush (n.) under corned beef, n.
Westralian Worker (Perth) 16 Apr. 7/6: I saw a long-nosed, greedy-looking fellow putting tenners on her. 1 don’t want that type of person to back my horses.at long-nosed, adj.
Westralian Worker (Perth, WA) 22 Dec. 8/7: Hoffman [a boxer] is well recommended, and it might be mentioned that in Sydney he was looked after by that excellent judge Jack Lynch, who would not waste his time on a ‘scroucher’.at scroucher, n.
Westralian Worker (Perth, WA) 14 Apr. 1/2: The ‘pommy,’ not knowing the ropes, and being in a strange land, will accept a pound or thirty shillings—he’s got to; or else starve or go on the ‘swag’.at go on the swag (v.) under swag, n.1
Westralian Worker (Perth, WA) 21 July 2/4: But we must lie about the Australian wage-earner. He must be told he
is a loafer and a never-sweat, lest he ask something like his value.at neversweat (n.) under sweat, v.2
Westralian Worker (Perth) 23 Apr. 8/6: [T]he ‘Would-to-Godders’ of the safe from military ser ice age howled like dingoes with empty stomachs for the young men to be forced' to plunge into the hor ror. One of their parrot cries was ‘Would to God I was a young man’.at would-to-Godder, n.
Westralian Worker (Perth) 21 Oct. 9/3: Later on [...] he saw Nico (another imported thing) running like a hairy dog at the tail of the field in the Goodwood Handicap !at run like a hairy goat (v.) under run, v.
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