daks
/daks
/plural noun Australian /NZ informal
Trousers.A third guy wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper....
- An old grey-haired but balding man approaches, wearing trackie daks.
- A bronzed lifesaver in bright red pool daks and a goofy cap is an Australian icon, although they're starting to wear shorts a la Baywatch or bikepants lately.
Origin
1930s (as a proprietary name for a brand of clothing): first recorded in this sense in the 1970s.
- take the fall
- take the field
- take the floor
- take the gilt off the gingerbread
- take the King's (or Queen's) shilling
- take the King's shilling
- take the law into one's own hands
- take the liberty
- take the long view
- take the mound
- take the (or one's etc.) secret to the grave
- take the part of
- take the piss (out of someone/thing)
- take the place of
- take the plunge
- take the rap
- take the rough with the smooth
- take the salute
- take the shine off
- take the starch out of
- take the trouble
- take the veil
- take the wind out of someone's sails
- take the words out of someone's mouth
- take thought