cane cocky
noun (plural cane cockies) Australian
The owner of a cane plantation: he sold small plots of land to cane cockies...
- What to do with a drunken Cane Cocky?
- It was in the far north of Australia where the cane cockies work the earth.
- She rode up on the riding points that some cane-cocky had carelessly left on the blind side of a curve.
Origin
Late 19th century: from cane + cocky3.
- throw one's toys out of the pram
- throw one's weight about (or around)
- throw one's weight behind
- throw (or cast or shed) light on
- throw (or catch) someone off balance
- throw (or chuck)a seven
- throw (or knock) someone for a loop
- throw (or pour) cold water on
- throw-over
- throw people together
- throw pillow
- throw rug
- throw shade
- throw shapes
- throw someone a bone
- throw someone a curve
- throw someone a curveball
- throw someone out
- throw someone over
- throw someone to the dogs
- throw someone to the lions
- throw someone to the wolves
- throw someone under the bus
- throw something away
- throw something back in someone's face