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things are crook in Tallarook
things are very bad AUSTRALIA, 1963 Tallarook is a town in central Victoria.- Anyway, things were crook in Tallarook with them, at the time. Even the mugs on their own musg’ list stopped buying their tips. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 60, 1965
- Many who worked close to Claude swore that he loved trouble, and he was at his best when everyone else was holding his head shouting that “things were crook in Tallarook.” — George Blaikie, Remember Smith’s Weekly?, p. 240, 1966
- The Longreach train is late again, / And things are crook in Tallarook[.] — John O’Grady, Aussie Etiket, p. 80, 1971
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