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[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Paramatta, NSW) 13 Aug. 6/2: [of Paramatta, NSW] The nuisance Inspector reported on visiting ‘Struggletown’ and other places in the municipality and finding everything satisfactory.
at struggle-town (n.) under struggle, n.
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Parramatta, NSW) 24 Sept. 10/4: He (witness) was in the library, when he heard a few voices saying, ‘Get at him. Take a piece out of him.’ Defendant then [...] asked witness to stand up, saying, [...] ‘What right had you to stop the dance?’.
at take a piece out of (v.) under piece, n.
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Paramatta, NSW) 25 Oct. 2/2: [Y]oung fellows who were in the discreditable habit of congregating in the streets on Sunday, and larrikinising in the vicinity of a church.
at larrikinise (v.) under larrikin, n.
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Parramatta, NSW) 31 July 4/1: Our Kangaroo Feather Wearers. Best Shots in the World [...] A Tommy told me that it was easy to tell the Queenslanders by the Kangaroo feathers in their hats.
at kangaroo feathers (n.) under kangaroo, n.1
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Parramatta, NSW) 1 Mar. 3/4: If he were to fill all expectations he might wear himself to skin and grief.
at skin-and-grief (n.) under skin, n.1
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Paramatta, NSW) 25 Aug. 8/2: [of Ryde, NSW] The point was that Ryde was getting the name of ‘Struggletown’ by its unsightly humpies and by the slackness of the authorities [...] and only poorer-class dwellings were now being erected.
at struggle-town (n.) under struggle, n.
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (NSW) 22 June 6/7: Loud squeals have rent the air of late because the ‘black hand’ gang that wrecked the Labon leagues and then sought for the jugular vein of the Empire was not allowed also to white-ant the repatriation effort.
at white-ant, v.
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (NSW) 21 Feb. 5/3: [headline] ‘On The Drift’ / Hard to Get Work / Gaol For His own Sake. ‘He said he had been out of work for three months,’ said the constable, ‘and that he had had no food since the day before. Sergeant Williamson: he appears to be on the drift.
at on the drift under drift, v.1
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Parramatta, NSW) 7 Mar. 14/1: How are the might fallen. Theo, winner of two Derbies, ran like a working bullock in the V.R.C. St Leger on Saturday. Apparently he has lost all form.
at like a working bullock (adj.) under working bullock, n.
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Paramatta, NSW) 1 June 13/5: ‘The bridge is too narrow for two cars to pass. If they try to pass on the bridge, it’s their own pigeon,’ said the engineer.
at pigeon, n.2
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Paramatta, NSW) 23 Jan. 1/2: ‘IT'S BEEN A GREAT ADVENTURE, but I'm really sorry. I caused mistress (Mrs. Marge Coombs,- of George Street, Parramatta) so much unhappiness,’ Twinkle, three-years-old: lovable bitza, said today.
at bitza, n.
[Aus] Cumberland Argus (Paramatta, NSW) 4 July 14/5: Everyone will have a chance of kicking the tin to the tune of £1 and multiples, probably up to £100, providing funds for tiles.
at kick the tin (v.) under tin, n.
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