| 释义 |
susso Austral. slang. Obsolescent.|ˈsʌsəʊ|
Also Susso.
[f. sustenance + -o2.]
a. State government relief paid to the unemployed, spec. during the Depression. Also in phr. on the susso.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 51 On the susso, in receipt of unemployed sustenance. 1942L. Mann Go-Getter 10 Five shillings were five shillings and a handsome help to the sustenance. ‘We're on the Susso now.’ That was the song they knew and did not sing. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Feb. 155/4 We're on the Susso now. In the 1930s Melbourne schoolchildren grew up chanting this (to them) cheerful folk song—‘Susso’ being the state government sustenance available to the unemployed throughout Australia under varying conditions during the Depression.
b. One who draws this relief.
1947V. Palmer Cyclone 8 He thinks it puts hair on his chest knocking about with the sussos. 1963F. Hardy Legends from Benson's Valley 166 The very thought..of the contempt the respectable held for the sussos changed his mood to defiance. |