10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DROP ONE'S BUNDLE»
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
He was the first drummer to drop bombs. drop a bundle drop one's bundle drop a
bundle - (si.) lose or spend a large amount of money (by gambling, etc.): Over the
years, I've dropped a bundle on clients at that restaurant. Note: The expression ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
(David Carey, Life in Paris, 1822.) A pun on synon. S.E. Levant. drop (one's or the
) bundle. To surrender; abandon hope; become frightened: Aus.:—1914 (Dennis)
. Prob. abbr. drop one's bundle and run.—2. To give birth: NZ: low: since ca.
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... person or thing: you're a bundle of laughs this evening. a bundle of joy informal
a baby: enjoy your little bundle ofjoy now because he is going to grow up fast. a
bundle of nerves see A BAG OF NERVES at BAG. drop one's bundle Austral.
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The Chambers Dictionary
bundle of fun an exuberant and entertaining person (sometimes ironic of one
who is not); bundle of laughs (urn: US) an entertaining person or situation (often
ironic); bundle of nerves see under nerve; drop one's bundle (Auslr slang) to lose
...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
2 to drop one's bundle Austral and NZ To go to pieces, give up. 1897–. S. GORE
It started to rain, too. And at this, he really drops his bundle (1968). 3a: drop dead!
orig US An exclamation of intense scorn. 1934–. I. & P. OPIE The well-worn ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Dictionary of Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms and ...
Longman. drop a brick / clanger Br. col. do or say smth. foolish and socially
unacceptable. drop one's bundle Aus. sl. panic. drop theball Am. make a mistake
or fail todo smth. dropball Can.sl. earring. drop cloth Am.,Can. /Br. dustsheet/ one
for ...
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Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French
3 To 'drop one's bundle', to have a baby. 4 To drop someone somewhere (after
having given him/her a lift). dépotoir n. m. 'Junk-heap', dirty and untidy room.
dépouille n. f. La dépouille: 'Mugging', action of robbing defenceless passersby.
E A Lovatt Esq, R J H, R. J. H 'erail, 2005
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... surrender, capitulate, be beaten; despair, lose heart, abandon hope, give up
hope; informal throw in the towel/sponge;Austral. informal drop one's bundle. 1
give something up I'm determined to give up smoking F she gave up her job: stop
, ...
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Speaking of Us: Voices from Twentieth-century Australia
... to do one's block, to drink with the flies, to drop one's bundle, to give someone
the drum, up against one's duckhouse, over the edge or over the fence, extra
grouse, fair crack of the whip, to be financial, full as a goog, get on someone's
works, ...
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Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
See also drop one's bundle drop a pupdrop a pup vb Australian to give birth to. A
vulgar and/or humorous euphemism used mainly by men. dropdeaddropdead
adj stunning, extreme, sensational. A vogue word since the mid- to late 1980s ...
