ockerdom
/ˈɒkədəm
/noun [mass noun] Australian informal
The qualities or attitudes considered characteristic of a stereotypical rough, uncultivated Australian man: the manager is the epitome of ockerdom, in his lurid unbuttoned Hawaiian print shirt...
- It's a bit hard to be representative of Australians today when the ghost of his ockerdom looms this large.
- Tom crashes back to the realities of beer cans and ockerdom.
- I know most of her friends and love them too, much more intelligent and gentle than she would find in Ockerdom, and that's important.
Origin
1970s: from ocker + -dom.
- you can't lose
- you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- you can't make bricks without straw
- you can't (or can) talk (you shouldn't or should talk)
- you can't put an old head on young shoulders
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you can't win them all (or win some, lose some)
- you could have fooled me!
- you could have knocked me (or her, him, etc.) down with a feather
- you couldn't make it up
- you'd
- you don't say (or you don't say so)!
- Youghiogheny River
- you have no idea
- you haven't lived!
- youing
- you know
- you know something (or what)?
- you-know-who (or you-know-what)
- you'll
- you may (or might) as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- you must be (or have to be) joking
- you must be (or have to be) kidding
- you name it
- you never know