8 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RATTLE ONE'S DAGS»
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rattle one's dags in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
rattle one's dags and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and ...
This is still current sheep industry parlance, but also occurs more generally in
colourful slang expressions like rattle one's dags as in 'to hurry'. When used of a
person in the early 1900s, a dag came to mean 'a tough but amusing character, ...
... ffiR i HS-gftJlMlni (Mother loves our younger brother //« rather that he is feeble.
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KIlU® Ltfy 2. ransom rattle 438.
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Of Pavlova, Poetry and Paradigms: Essays in Honour of Harry ...
1968); bloodhouse 'a disorderly public house' (NZ 1951, Aust. 1952); rattle one's
dags 'get a move on' (NZ 1968, Aust. 1980); kindie 'kindergarten' (NZ 1959, Aust.
1973); marching girl (NZ 1952, Aust. 1953); pen and ink 'drink' (NZ 1963, Aust.
Christine Franzen, Laurie Bauer, 1993
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... Brit. look smart; informal get cracking, get moving, step on it, step on the gas,
shake a leg, rattle one's dags; Brit. informal get one's skates on, stir one's stumps;
N. Amer. informal get a wiggle on; S.African informal put foot; dated make haste.
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Oxford Dictionary of English
verb (dags, dagging, dagged) [with obj] Austral/NZ cut dags from (a sheep). —
PHRASES rattle one's dags Austral/NZ informal hurry up. — ORIGIN late Middle
English (denoting a hanging pointed part of something): possibly related to TAG'.
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Australian words and their origins
S. In the phr. to rattle (one's) dags, to bestir oneself, to hurry. |N.Z. 1968 C. S latter
Pagan Game 161 I'm not over- struck on that new cop. — Told me to rattle my
dags out of there.) 1980 S. Thorne I've met iome Bloody Wagi 96 Hurry up!
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Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English
The more recent phrase to rattle one's dags is a way of telling someone to hurry
up. The adjective daggy formed from this second dag, means '(of a sheep or a
fleece) befouled with dags', and this is first recorded in 1895. In the 1960s
another ...
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Reader's Digest Oxford complete wordfinder
(dagged, dagging) remove dags from (a sheep). d rattle one's dags si. hurry up.
dd dagger n. [orig. Engl. dial.] dag2 /dag/ n. Austral. & NZ si. an eccentric or
noteworthy person; a character (he's a bit of a dag), [orig. Engl, dial., = a dare, ...
Reader's Digest Association, 1996
