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Bendigo Independent choose

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[Aus] Bendigo Indep. (Vic.) 30 Apr. 2/4: Some of the jurors wanted to ‘schlog it on’ after the style that the Abrahams used to ‘schlog it on’ to their duped customers.
at schlog it on (v.) under schlog, v.
[Aus] Bendigo Indep. (Vic.) 23 Jan. 3/1: Plausible soapy old fellows who were past masters in the art of palavering the women .
at soapy, adj.
[Aus] Bendigo Indep. (Vic.) 22 Jan. 6/5: His ‘push’ who for the whole of Friday and late into Friday night were ‘running the rabbit’ (carry beer in bottle or billy-can).
at run the rabbit (v.) under rabbit, n.2
[Aus] Bendigo Indep. (Vic.) 8 Mar. 4/4: Listen to the first verse: - ‘How do dodo, pleasant day this evening. If we have some rain it will be wet; I have such a pretty song to sing you, but the words I really do forget. How do dodo, do dododododo, How do dodo, do do, do dodo. Whack fol de de do, fol do diddle di do, How do dodo, do dodododo’.
at whacko the diddle-oh!, excl.
[Aus] Bendigo Indep. (Vic.) 1 May. 6/2: ‘Well, take him to the kitchen and plant him on the rug in a plain-Jane-and-no-nonsense manner, and Elspeth’ll swallow him, I bet’.
at plain-Jane-and-no-nonsense, n.
[Aus] Bendigo Indep. (Vic.) 2 Apr. 3/2: [A]nd then came a weird, hair-raising display picturing [...] the evil effects of cigarette smoking. Cigarettes, ticked as ‘coffin nails,’ hung from a rafter, and below was a representation of a cemetary, cigarette boxes forming the head stones.
at coffin nail, n.2
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