tucker job
noun Australian informal, dated
A poorly paid job: if a man does find a workable reef it’s likely to be only a tucker job...
- I said that £500 a year was only a tucker job.
- Life to these folk is mostly a tucker job.
- Oh, that was only a tucker job anyway
Origin
Late 19th century: from the notion that the wage paid is enough to buy food only.
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