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单词 to do a perisher
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to do a perisher
b. A state of privation, esp. one of drought or starvation. to do a perisher: to be in or reach a state of extreme privation; to die, esp. of thirst. Cf. perish n. 2. Now rare.
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1892 Bohemia (Melbourne) 3 Mar. 15 Many thirsty travellers arrived and were languishing for a ‘reviver’. Doing, in bush parlance, a ‘perisher’ for a ‘nip’.
1903 R. Bedford True Eyes 292 Of course that country we went to on the Peak was a shicer. Just's well you didn't come—we near did a perisher there.
1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad vi. 44 Where one flood will leave behind a well-filled waterhole..the next, probably, will fill the hole with sand. And that is precisely what had happened here... It looked as if we were in for what the Inlander calls a ‘perisher’.
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