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单词 give someone Bondi
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give someone Bondi

Australian informal, dated Attack someone savagely: Snowy got Maxie in a corner and began to give him Bondi...
  • Many a push battle was called in the dark, to the cry of 'Give 'em Bondi!', a memorial echo of defiance.
  • When larrikins, approach the police now in a belligerent attitude it is their custom to threaten to give them "Bondi".
  • I quote this instance of the unpopularity of the "force," not as on the level of "Give 'em Bondi," but as manifesting at the time a genuine and general popular revulsion to the irritating innovation!
Possibly from bondi 'a heavy Aboriginal club', though influenced by the form and pronunciation of the place name. Early evidence links the phrase to a violent riot at Bondi Beach in 1884
See parent entry: Bondi
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