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Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
Brass razoo is an Australian phrase that was first recorded in soldiers' slang in World War I. It is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "a non-existent coin of trivial value". [ 1 ] It is commonly used in the expression I haven't got a brass razoo , meaning the speaker is out of money.
No wukkas. No worries, don’t worry about it, all good. She’ll be right. According to ANU, Australian English often uses the feminine pronoun “she,” whereas standard English would use “it.”
Down on His Luck, painted by Frederick McCubbin in 1889, depicts a melancholic swagman "on the Wallaby". Before motor transport became common, the Australian wool industry was heavily dependent on itinerant shearers who carried their swags from farm to farm (called properties or "stations" in Australia), but would not in general have taken kindly to being called "swagmen".
Before You Watch NCIS: Sydney, a Handy Glossary of Aussie/UK Slang and Terms. Matt Webb Mitovich. November 11, 2023 at 7:00 PM. TV’s fifth NCIS series is the first one with an international setting.
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The Australian rock group AC/DC has a song called "Two's Up" on their 1988 Blow Up Your Video album that references the game. In the 1960 film Hell Is a City set in Manchester , England , [ 8 ] there is a scene in which robbers use stolen money to join in a gang of local men gathered on a hill behind the town to gamble "the toss".
The first Australian coins that were shipped bore the bust of Edward VII, who had died before the coins reached Australia. [5] The origin of the word sixpence is derived from "saxpence". [6] Another term for the sixpence is "zac", which was first recorded in Australian English in the 1890s. It was also used to mean "a trifling sum of money". [6]