big bickies

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big bickies

pl n

slang Austral a large sum of money

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Some, like Stretchmarks, touch upon a range of emotions and problems wider than you would expect in what is popularly known as 'light entertainment'; and in the musical theatre of Mervyn Thompson, or even in a good 'musical comedy' like Stephen Sinclair's Big Bickies, (4) there is something serious at stake, there is a drama at the centre of things.

I was impressed, on the one hand, by the sharp satirical edge of Stephen Sinclair's Big Bickies and, on the other, by the sympathetic poignancy of Aunt Daisy!

Stephen Sinclair had already shown in Big Bickies as well as Ladies' Night an acute sense of what appeals to the populace.