10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JOE BLAKES»
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1
Kangaroo's Comments and Wallaby's Words: The Aussie Word Book
The goanna's slippery rellies include Joe Blakes. Watch out for Joe Blakes in the
grass because many of them kill with deadly poison. Do you know what we are
looking for? Think rhyming slang. Joe Blakes rhymes with snakes! So keep ...
2
Wordbook of Australian Idiom: Aussie Slang
... blake Many species of Australian snakes are highly venomous— 'Aussie joe
blakes are deadly little buggars' joe blakes The shakes, generally caused by
excessive drinking of alcohol (delirium tremens, dt's)— 'This coot has the joe
blakes, ...
3
Adopted: Twins! (Mills & Boon Cherish) (Parents Wanted - Book 3)
There's too many Joe Blakes.' 'Joe Blakes?' The twins were fascinated, as they'd
been fascinated by everything Matt said. In their eyes, Matt had achieved almost
cult status—not by saving them last night, but by saving Tigger. They thought ...
4
The Keepers and the Kept
... can cause blood vessels to leak into tissue or trigger the release of damaging
proteins, causing renal failure. Most of Australia's venomous snakes, and the
closely related cobras, have venom that contains variations of the. 'JOE BLAKES'
5
The Rolando Hinojosa Reader
This state of affairs can produce what the late Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo,
once called 'the joe blakes'. Now, one of the consequences of the 'joe blakes' is
constant worry, another is frustration, and this, at times, can lead to the kicking of
...
6
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
Rhyming slang UK, 1992 Joe Blakes noun the shaking symptoms of extreme
alcoholism. Rhyming slang for the SHAKES AUSTRALIA, 1944 Joe Bloggs noun
everyman; a notional average man UK, 1969 Joe Blow noun 1 an average,
typical ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
7
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Joe Blakes, the. Delirium tremens: Aus. rhyming s., on snakes: C.20. Alan
Marshall, These Are My People, 1946. Joe boy, Joe job. One who is detailed for
an unpleasant job (a 'Joe job'): Can army: since ca. 1940. Joe Brown (A) town:
rhyming ...
8
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
... the Joe Blakes, the goannas, the flies, and 4000 skinnyjumbucks (1970). Joe
Bloggs noun BritAhypothetical average man. 1969–. DAILY TELEGRAPH In too
many cases these forms arrive on the desk of a busy executive who concludes ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
9
Oxford Dictionary of English
pet form of the given name Joseph; compare with JOE BLOGGS. Sense 2 arose
in the 1940s. Joe Blake 7noun rhyming slang 1 Austral. a snake. 2 (Joe Blakes)
Austral./NZ the shakes; delirium tremens. Joe Bloggs 7noun Brit. informal a name
...
Nobody fools around with Joe Blakes, girlie. Bloke who fools around with snakes
is a flamin' idiot.' Suddenly he swings his arm across the table and backhands
Jessica hard across the cheek, his knuckles making her skull ring and the teeth ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JOE BLAKES»
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Joe Blakes is used in the context of the following news items.
Pig's ear at beer o'clock, anyone?
Cockney rhyming slang was adopted to codify beer as "pig's ear", while too much gave one the "Joe Blakes" (the shakes). One then recovered ... «The Dominion Post, Mar 09»
