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English term or phrase:
right up your ginger
English answer:
immediately shouting words of anger and displeasure
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S.J
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right up your ginger
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right up your ginger
- What if you were sort of tired after the first 45 seconds of it?
- They'd be right up your ginger. they used to say. Muova ti!
They are talking about cane cutters. The guy just give it a crack. The material is Australian.
Thanks in advance,
- They'd be right up your ginger. they used to say. Muova ti!
They are talking about cane cutters. The guy just give it a crack. The material is Australian.
Thanks in advance,
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Kiet Bach
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immediately shouting words of anger and displeasure
Ginger is a word for butt or ass in Australia.
ginger (abbreviation of ginger ale, rhyming slang for ‘tail’) First recorded in 1955.
Stone the crows! I’m sitting here with fifty thousand bags of flour under my ginger.
http://ozwords.org/?p=4323
The meaning of "right up your ginger" may be similar to that of the idiom, "shove it up your ass", which means an exclamation of extreme anger, disgust, hatred; often accompanied by an obscene gesture.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shove_it_up_your_ass
ginger (abbreviation of ginger ale, rhyming slang for ‘tail’) First recorded in 1955.
Stone the crows! I’m sitting here with fifty thousand bags of flour under my ginger.
http://ozwords.org/?p=4323
The meaning of "right up your ginger" may be similar to that of the idiom, "shove it up your ass", which means an exclamation of extreme anger, disgust, hatred; often accompanied by an obscene gesture.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shove_it_up_your_ass
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philgoddard
: But nothing to do with "shove it up your ass". It means they'd pounce on you, and tell you to hurry up.
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Mark Robertson
: I agree with Phil
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Brent Sørensen
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