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Tweed Daily choose

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[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 18 Jan. 7/5: ‘YawI set? Then come inter the ring, spinner.’ ‘Now, fair go, an’ don’ kick them bronzers!’.
at bronze, n.2
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 17 May 7/4: But I’ve come a regimental; I have lobbed; I’m down and out.
at come a regimental (v.) under come, v.3
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 17 May 7/4: But I’ve come a regimental; I have lobbed; I’m down and out. / I have landed good and clever; I have got the right about, / And I’ve lost all faith in women, and I’m out upon the grout, / Since that snoozer with a dial like a meat-axe cut me out.
at cut out, v.2
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 17 May 7/4: And them they grins like Cheshire cats. / The ‘donks,’ they want some hay.
at donk, n.1
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 18 Jan. 7/5: ‘YawI set? Then come inter the ring, spinner.’ ‘Now, fair go, an’ don’ kick them bronzers!’.
at fair go, phr.
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 17 May 7/4: But I’ve come a regimental; I have lobbed; I’m down and out. / I have landed good and clever; I have got the right about, / And I’ve lost all faith in women, and I’m out upon the grout, / Since that snoozer with a dial like a meat-axe cut me out.
at on the grout (adj.) under grout, n.
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 18 Jan. 7/5: ‘Now, come mon! Yer know wot ti want! I want five bob in the guts! Un yous can't getcher bets on her side till I git set!’.
at gut, n.
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 18 Jan. 7/5: ‘Yer know wot ti want! I want five bob in the guts! [...] I wanter norse’s collar in the guts!’.
at horse’s collar (n.) under horse, n.
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 17 May 7/4: But I’ve come a regimental; I have lobbed; I’m down and out .
at lob, v.
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 18 Jan. 7/5: ‘I want five bob in the guts! [...] I wanter noxford scholar in the guts!’.
at Oxford (scholar), n.
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 17 May 7/4: And I never cared a ‘razoo’ for that ‘shielar’ any way.
at razoo, n.1
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 17 May 7/4: And I’ve lost all faith in women, and I’m out upon the grout, / Since that snoozer with a dial like a meat-axe cut me out.
at snoozer, n.1
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 16 July 5/1: Five Australians [...] were to-day sentenced to five years’ gaol each at the Old Bailey on the charge of having obtained money by betting card tricks and Anzac poker.
at Anzac poker (n.) under Anzac, adj.
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 10 Mar. 6/3: [heading] HINDUS AND MOHAMMEDANS. A Peep into Mystic India. (By ‘Banshut Khan).
at banchoot, n.
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 30 Nov. 2/5: The naturalist was waiting patiently with his camera in a ‘hide-up’ which lie had carefully built of stone near a waterhole.
at hide-up (n.) under hide, v.1
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 1 Mar. 4/3: Davis [...] was giving a younger lad a ‘double’ on his bicycle [...] when a boot of the latter caught in the machine and both were thrown heavily.
at doubler, n.1
[Aus] Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 24 Apr. 3/4: Picturesque phrases and their interpretations heard at the Police Association Conference in Sydney: [...] Kathleen Maroon— three years’ gaol.
at kathleen maroon, n.
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