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Old Dart Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
[Origin uncertain: cf. dart n. 7.]
The ‘old country’; Great Britain, esp. England.
1908E. S. Sorenson Quinton's Rouseabout 206 Murty unexpectedly came in for something like {pstlg}800 by the death of a distant and almost forgotten relative in the old dart. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Dec. 58/4 He was a forward in the British team of 1904, led by Bedell Sievwright, about the best side from the Old Dart to visit these shores. 1935‘J. Guthrie’ Little Country i. 6 The present generation..still finds under its skin a queer, rooted, and sometimes flowering love for the Old Dart. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. x. 184 He would be less maudlinly sentimental over Home, the old country, the old dart, or the old land as Britain was known. 1950K. S. Pritchard Winged Seeds 357 ‘It means,’ Dinny said slowly, ‘that Australia's backin' the Old Dart with $31,500,000 worth of gold a year.’ 1952J. Cleary Sundowners 157, I married her when I was over in the Old Dart during the war. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 143 If you'd come from the Old Dart yourself you'd have been the first to start chucking snow. 1973Austral. Women's Weekly 25 July 79/3 Fresh from the Old Dart, I was as willing as they came. I wanted to write that success letter home to England. |