- on the wallaby track
- On the wallaby track(AU) In Australian English, if you're on the wallaby track, you are unemployed.
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on the wallaby track
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On the wallaby track — Artist Frederick McCubbin Year 1896 Type oil on canvas Dimensions 122.0 cm × 223.5 cm (48.0 in × 88.0 in) … Wikipedia
on the wallaby track — on the wallaby or on the wallaby track (informal; Aust) Travelling through the bush with one s swag, esp looking for work • • • Main Entry: ↑wallaby … Useful english dictionary
On the wallaby track — on the way from place to place (in search of work) … Dictionary of Australian slang
on the wallaby track — Australian Slang on the way from place to place (in search of work) … English dialects glossary
on the wallaby — The word wallaby (used to describe many smaller marsupials of the family Macropididae) is a borrowing into English from Dharuk (the Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the Sydney region). It first appears in written form in 1798. The term… … Australian idioms
on the wallaby — or on the wallaby track (informal; Aust) Travelling through the bush with one s swag, esp looking for work • • • Main Entry: ↑wallaby … Useful english dictionary
wallaby track — /ˈwɒləbi træk/ (say woluhbee trak) noun Colloquial the route across country taken by workers looking for seasonal employment usually while living as swagmen. See wallaby (def. 3) …
wallaby — /ˈwɒləbi / (say woluhbee) noun (plural wallabies or, especially collectively, wallaby) 1. any of various smaller members of the family Macropodidae, many resembling kangaroos, belonging to a number of different genera, as Macropus (as the tammar… …
track — I. /træk / (say trak) noun 1. a road, path, or trail. 2. the structure of rails, sleepers, etc., on which a railway train or the like runs; a railway line. 3. the mark, or series of marks, left by anything that has passed along. 4. (especially… …
wallaby track, on the — Australian English To wander from place to place in search of work (archaic) … English dialects glossary
