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18:15 May 3, 2021 |
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO] General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / right up your ginger | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Kiet Bach United States Local time: 19:31 | ||||||
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3 +3 | immediately shouting words of anger and displeasure |
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immediately shouting words of anger and displeasure Explanation: 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 |
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