Clayton's
/ˈkleɪt(ə)nz
/adjective Australian /NZ informal
Not real or genuine; existing in name only: even this Clayton’s inquiry was forced to highlight major failures...
- This could be again another Clayton's promise: the promise you make when you are not really making a promise.
- He does not want to be Minister of Defence — he is another Clayton's Minister.
- I referred to it as a Clayton's relationship, ie a relationship you have when you don't have a relationship.
Origin
1980s: from the proprietary name of a soft drink marketed using the line ‘the drink you have when you're not having a drink’.
- don'tcha
- don't change horses in midstream
- don't count your chickens before they're hatched
- don't give it another thought
- don't give up the (or your) day job
- don't hold your breath
- don't I know it!
- don't-know
- don't knowist
- don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- don't mention it
- don't (or I wouldn't) bet on it
- don't put all your eggs in one basket
- don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
- don't start (or don't you start)
- don't talk to me about ——
- don't you believe it!
- don't you know
- don't —— me
- donut
- doo
- doobie
- doobrey
- doobrie
- doobry