... policemen. Yet he is very hospitable and, above all, will stick to his mates through thick and thin, even if he thinks they may be in the wrong. No epithet in his vocabulary is more completely damning than 'scab', unless it be 'pimp' used in its peculiarly... Being Australian: Narratives of national identityvon Catriona Elder - 2007 - 400 SeitenKeine Leseprobe verfügbar - Über dieses Buch
| Stuart C. Aitken, Leo Zonn - 1994 - 284 Seiten
...policemen. Yet he is very hospitable and, above all, will stick to his mates through thick and thin ... He tends to be a rolling stone, highly suspect if he should chance to gather much moss. (1965, pp. 1-2) The importance of this national symbolic landscape to the nation's identity is still... | |
| Jörg Heinke - 2005 - 322 Seiten
...and, above all, will stick to his mates through thick and drin, even if he thinks they may be in the wrong. [. ..] He tends to be a rolling stone, highly suspect if he should chance to gather much moss.171 Auffällig bei der Definition von Ward ist - im Gegensatz zu traditionellen europäischen... | |
| Jonathan Bollen, Bruce Parr, Adrian Kiernander - 2008 - 215 Seiten
...damning than 'scab', unless it be 'pimp' used in its peculiarly Australasian meaning of 'informer'. He tends to be a rolling stone, highly suspect if he should chance to gather much moss. (1958: 1-2) It is interesting to compare these portraits of the typical Australian with the male characters... | |
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