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词汇 six bob a day tourist
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Definition of six bob a day tourist in English:

six bob a day tourist

noun
Australian informal, historical

  • An Australian serviceman of the First World War.

    whether you were a six bob a day tourist or a staff officer, the risk was the same
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Anything exotic on which the six-bob-a-day tourists could spend their money was fair game, before their collective hangovers met their waiting transport.
    • Some in the Australian press were convinced that the men who joined the AIF would be nothing but 'six bob a day tourists'.
    • For Australia, 416,809 men enlisted (about 13 per cent of the white male population) and 331,000 of them sailed overseas to be 'six-bob a day tourists' and to fight.
    • Fights broke out when the soldiers were ridiculed as 'six bob a day tourists'.
    • Three weeks and one day later, Oscar was on his way on the Seuvic, a happy and excited 'six-bob-a-day' tourist.

Origin

Early 20th century: with reference to the soldiers' daily rate of pay.
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