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Ovens and Murray Advertiser choose

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[Aus] Ovens and Murray Advertiser (Beechworth, Vic) 18 Jan. 3/4: The various tradesmen in Beechworth [...] would sooner have us as customers and are mere regularly paid by us than by your bell-toppered, solar-hatted, ‘Tommy Dodd’-coated ‘lords of creation’ - save the mark.
at tommy dodd, n.3
[Aus] Ovens and Murray Advertiser (Beechworth, Vic) 4 May 1/1: ‘He who excuses himself accuses himself,’ and this is what Mr Woods has done in his anxiety to prove that he was not prompted by malice to give Beechworth, in the language of the Cabinet, ‘a smack in the eye’.
at smack in the eye, n.1
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