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单词 galah session
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galah session

noun Australian informal
A period allocated for private conversation on an outback radio network, especially between women on isolated stations: she cheered herself up by listening in on the morning galah session...
  • The galah sessions soon evolved with isolated workers sharing a chinwag or three over the airwaves.
  • Traeger inadvertently named the “galah session" in 1935 when sending wire to Birdsville to strengthen the aerial from collapsing under the weight of galahs.
  • Her only social contact was the weekly galah session.

Origin

1940s: a jocular extended sense of galah, with reference to the bird's raucous call and habit of gathering in flocks.

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