shame job
noun Australian
An action or situation that causes embarrassment: it was a shame job in those days to have two children before you were married...
- This has been a vindictive action by certain people and it is a huge shame job on those people.
- The local young fellows call it a shame job in that he was humiliated and made to feel contrition.
- The Government doesn't want this shame job to continue, and the industry is desperate for these proposals to go ahead.
Origin
1970s (originally Aboriginal English): from shame (in the adjective sense 'self-conscious, embarrassed') + job1.