| 单词 | all behind like barney's bull |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall behind like Barney's bull all behind like Barney's bull and variants: very delayed or backward; also (in later use) overweight. ΚΠ 1871 Empire (Sydney) 5 Jan. 3/5 Everything is being fixed in readiness for their engine, which has not yet arrived, and like the tail of Barney's bull, is a long way behind. 1903 Mudgee (New S. Wales) Guardian 16 July 18/3 Now, during my lifetime I have heard some very strange sayings, and the one that I am going to quote is one of them, and here it is: ‘All behind like Barney's bull’. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. iv. 88 All behind like Barney's bull, delayed, backward (a play on the word behind, although the expression is probably as alliterative as it is biological). 1972 A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 52 Short of a Gallop: Mild descriptive phrase [for]..overplump or out of condition. A more unkind expression is all behind like Barney's bull. < as lemmas |
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